Ethnoracial disparities in breast cancer treatment time and survival: a systematic review with a DAG-based causal model.

ABSTRACT: For interventions aimed at redressing health disparities in breast cancer to be effective, a clear understanding of the nature and causes of these disparities is required. Our questions were: what is the current evidence for ethnoracial disparities in time-to-treatment initiation and survival in breast cancer, and how are the causal mechanisms of these disparities conceptualized in the literature? A comprehensive systematic search of studies on cohorts of female patients with breast cancer diagnosed with stage I-III was performed. Directed acyclic graphs were used to describe implicit causal relationships between racial/ethnic group membership and time-to-treatment initiation and survival outcomes. This review revealed strong evidence for ethnoracial disparities in both time to treatment a

SUBMITTER: Hesari PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12278384 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature