Early breast cancer survival of black and white American women with equal diagnostic and therapeutic management.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Breast cancer (BC) survival favors White versus Black Americans despite advances in screening and treatment. We hypothesized that these differences were dependent upon quality of care by analyzing long-term outcomes of 3139 early BC patients at our quaternary care center where uniform access and management of BC is provided to women irrespective of race.

Methods

Prospectively collected data for clinical stage I-II BC patients from our quaternary care cancer center were analyzed, focusing on disease-specific survival (DSS). Subgroup analyses included the overall cohort, triple-negative BC (TNBC), non-TNBC and HER2/neu positive patients. Multivariable analyses to evaluate associations of variables with DSS were performed for each subgroup.

Results

The overall co

SUBMITTER: Leonard-Murali S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9974573 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature