Breast Cancer Mortality Hot Spots Among Black Women With de Novo Metastatic Breast Cancer.

ABSTRACT: Black women living in southern states have the highest breast cancer mortality rate in the United States. The prognosis of de novo metastatic breast cancer is poor. Given these mortality rates, we are the first to link nationally representative data on breast cancer mortality hot spots (counties with high breast cancer mortality rates) with cancer mortality data in the United States and investigate the association of geographic breast cancer mortality hot spots with de novo metastatic breast cancer mortality among Black women. We identified 7292 Black women diagnosed with de novo metastatic breast cancer in Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER). The county-level characteristics were obtained from 2014 County Health Rankings and linked to SEER. We used Cox proportional hazards

SUBMITTER: Han Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7791608 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature