Population simulation modeling of disparities in US breast cancer mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Populations of African American or Black women have persistently higher breast cancer mortality than the overall US population, despite having slightly lower age-adjusted incidence.

Methods

Three Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network simulation teams modeled cancer mortality disparities between Black female populations and the overall US population. Model inputs used racial group-specific data from clinical trials, national registries, nationally representative surveys, and observational studies. Analyses began with cancer mortality in the overall population and sequentially replaced parameters for Black populations to quantify the percentage of modeled breast cancer morality disparities attributable to differences in demographics, incidence, acces

SUBMITTER: Mandelblatt JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10637022 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature