Racial Disparities in Diagnostic Delay Among Women With Breast Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Early diagnosis is fundamental to reducing breast cancer (BC) mortality, and understanding potential barriers from initial screening to confirmed diagnosis is essential. The aim of this study was to evaluate patient characteristics that contribute to delay in diagnosis of screen-detected cancers and the contribution of delay to tumor characteristics and BC mortality.

Methods

Three hundred sixty-two White and 368 Black women were identified who were screened and received subsequent BC diagnoses within Emory Healthcare, a part of Emory University health care system (2010-2014). Multivariable-adjusted logistic regression was used to calculate the odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) associating patient characteristics with delay to diagnostic evaluation

SUBMITTER: Miller-Kleinhenz JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8492512 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature