Narrowing Racial Gaps in Breast Cancer: Factors Affecting Probability of Adjuvant Radiation Therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Adjuvant radiation therapy has historically been underused by black patients with breast cancer compared with white patients. We prospectively investigated factors, including sociocultural, psychosocial, and health care factors, that may be associated with the use or omission of adjuvant radiation therapy by both racial groups.

Methods and materials

Women with primary invasive, nonmetastatic breast cancer were recruited from hospitals and through community outreach efforts in the Washington, DC, and Detroit, Michigan, areas between July 2006 and April 2011. Data were collected via telephone interviews regarding psychosocial (eg, self-efficacy) and health care factors (eg, communication) at the time they received a diagnosis. Clinical data were extracted from their me

SUBMITTER: Snead F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7004948 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature