Survival of Filipino women with breast cancer in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The survival of women with early-stage breast cancer varies by racial group. Filipino women with breast cancer are an understudied group and are often combined with other Asian groups. We compared clinical presentations and survival rates for Filipino and White women with breast cancer diagnosed in the United States.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of women with breast cancer diagnosed between 2004 and 2015 in the SEER18 registries database. We compared crude survival between Filipino and White women. We then calculated adjusted hazard ratios (HR) in a propensity-matched design using the Cox proportional hazards model.

Results

There were 10,834 Filipino (2.5%) and 414,618 White women (97.5%) with Stage I-IV breast cancer in the SEER databa

SUBMITTER: Lim DW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10587940 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature