Racial and ethnic disparities in treatment-related heart disease mortality among US breast cancer survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Racial and ethnic disparities in heart disease mortality by initial treatment type among breast cancer survivors have not been well described.

Methods

We included 739 557 women diagnosed with first primary invasive breast cancer between 2000 and 2017 (aged 18-84 years, received surgery, survived ≥1 year, followed through 2018) in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-18 database. Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs; observed over expected) were calculated by race and ethnicity (non-Hispanic/Latina Asian American, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders [AANHPI]; non-Hispanic/Latina Black [Black]; Hispanic/Latina [Latina]; and non-Hispanic/Latina White [White]) and initial treatment (surgery only; chemotherapy with surgery; chemotherapy, radiotherap

SUBMITTER: Vo JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10130190 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature