Disparities in survival outcomes among racial/ethnic minorities with head and neck squamous cell cancer in the United States

S Baliga, VO Yildiz, J Bazan, JD Palmer, SR Jhawar… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Racial disparities in head and neck cancers contribute to mortality in
racial/ethnic (R/E) minorities, but the specific risk factors associated with inferior survival are …

Profiling the somatic mutational landscape of breast tumors from Hispanic/Latina women reveals conserved and unique characteristics

YC Ding, H Song, AW Adamson, D Schmolze, D Hu… - Cancer research, 2023 - AACR
Somatic mutational profiling is increasingly being used to identify potential targets for breast
cancer. However, limited tumor-sequencing data from Hispanic/Latinas (H/L) are available …

Disparities in late-stage breast and colorectal cancer diagnosis among Hispanic, non-Hispanic White, and non-Hispanic Black patients: a retrospective cohort study of …

MS Nicot-Cartsonis, BDE Digbeu, MA Raji… - Journal of Racial and …, 2023 - Springer
Background Disparities in late-stage breast or colorectal cancer diagnosis in younger
populations are associated with social determinants of health (SDOH; education, poverty …

Health insurance and neighborhood poverty as mediators of racial disparities in advanced disease stage at diagnosis and nonreceipt of surgery for women with breast …

RB Hines, X Zhu, E Lee, B Eames… - Cancer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background In our recent study, advanced disease stage and nonreceipt of surgery were the
most important mediators of the racial disparity in breast cancer survival. The purpose of this …

Disparities in Timely Surgery among Asian American Women with Breast Cancer

YH Chen, YW Chen, DC Chang, TO Oseni - The American Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background We investigated the likelihood of timely surgery for breast cancer patients
among diverse Asian subgroups. Methods We analyzed the National Cancer Database from …

[HTML][HTML] Racial/Ethnic Differences in Pathologic Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Survival Among Early-Stage, Erb-B2 Receptor Tyrosine …

JQ Freeman, JL Li, OJ Omoleye - Journal of Breast Cancer, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Racial/ethnic differences in pathologic complete response (pCR), and in overall survival
(OS) by pCR status, among early-stage, erb-b2 receptor tyrosine kinase 2 (ERBB2)-low …

Disparities in Early-Stage Breast Cancer and Survival

JG Bazan, S Obeng-Gyasi - Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 2022 - AACR
We commend Primm and colleagues for performing an analysis of ethnoracial disparities in
outcomes in women with early-stage breast cancer (1). As the authors note, aggregating …

Breast cancer survival analysis in the Republic of Mauritius by age, stage at diagnosis and molecular subtype: A retrospective cohort study

M Koon Sun Pat, M Manraj, S Manraj - International Journal of Cancer - Wiley Online Library
Breast cancer is by far the leading cancer both in terms of incidence and mortality in the
Republic of Mauritius, a Small Island Developing State (SIDS). However, few studies …

Molecular Epidemiology of Breast Cancer in Iran: A Review Article

R Dolatkhah, M Hosseinalifam, Z Sanaat… - Journal of Obstetrics …, 2023 - jogcr.com
Breast cancer (BC) was the most common cancer in Iran, accounting for 12.9% of all incident
cancer, and was the 5th leading cause of cancer death in 2020. The latest age standardized …

Disparities in Early-Stage Breast Cancer and Survival—Reply

KM Primm, H Zhao, DC Hernandez, S Chang - … Epidemiology, Biomarkers & …, 2022 - AACR
We thank Drs. Bazan and Obeng-Gyasi (1) for their interest in our study (2) and we welcome
this opportunity for further discourse. In their letter, they suggest that we extend our analysis …