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Study Finds Racial Disparity in Breast Cancer Outcomes
Jan 16, 2011 at 5:45am
Black women had higher death rates, no matter what kind of breast cancer they developed
African-American women had worse outcomes no matter what kind of breast cancer they developed, suggesting that other factors such as disparities in access to care and treatment, for example for the more common subtypes of breast cancer like luminal A breast cancer, also contribute to the higher breast cancer mortality observed in African-American women
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