The Effect of Patient and Contextual Characteristics on Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Breast Cancer Mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Racial/ethnic disparity in breast cancer-specific mortality in the United States is well documented. We examined whether accounting for racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of clinical, patient, and lifestyle and contextual factors that are associated with breast cancer-specific mortality can explain this disparity.

Methods

The California Breast Cancer Survivorship Consortium combined interview data from six California-based breast cancer studies with cancer registry data to create a large, racially diverse cohort of women with primary invasive breast cancer. We examined the contribution of variables in a previously reported Cox regression baseline model plus additional contextual, physical activity, body size, and comorbidity variables to the racial/ethnic

SUBMITTER: Sposto R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4930680 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature