Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States

VA Zavala, PM Bracci, JM Carethers… - British journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
There are well-established disparities in cancer incidence and outcomes by race/ethnicity
that result from the interplay between structural, socioeconomic, socio-environmental …

Diagnostic potential of exosomal extracellular vesicles in oncology

M Andre, A Caobi, JS Miles, A Vashist, MA Ruiz… - BMC cancer, 2024 - Springer
Liquid biopsy can detect circulating cancer cells or tumor cell-derived DNA at various stages
of cancer. The fluid from these biopsies contains extracellular vesicles (EVs), such as …

Oncologic anthropology: Global variations in breast cancer risk, biology, and outcome

L Newman - Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The global breast cancer burden is growing. Of 19.3 million new cancers diagnosed in 2020,
2.26 million were breast, surpassing lung as the most commonly diagnosed worldwide …

Disparities at the intersection of race and ethnicity: examining trends and outcomes in Hispanic women with breast cancer

CD Champion, SM Thomas, JK Plichta… - JCO Oncology …, 2022 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE: We sought to examine tumor subtype, stage at diagnosis, time to surgery (TTS),
and overall survival (OS) among Hispanic patients of different races and among Hispanic …

Cancer epidemiology in Hispanic populations: what have we learned and where do we need to make progress?

L Fejerman, AG Ramirez, AM Nápoles, SL Gomez… - … Biomarkers & Prevention, 2022 - AACR
Abstract The Hispanic/Latino (x) population (H/L) in the United States of America is
heterogeneous and fast growing. Cancer is the number one cause of death among H/Ls …

Profiling the somatic mutational landscape of breast tumors from Hispanic/Latina women reveals conserved and unique characteristics

YC Ding, H Song, AW Adamson, D Schmolze, D Hu… - Cancer research, 2023 - AACR
Somatic mutational profiling is increasingly being used to identify potential targets for breast
cancer. However, limited tumor-sequencing data from Hispanic/Latinas (H/L) are available …

Breast cancer subtype and clinical characteristics in women from Peru

VA Zavala, S Casavilca-Zambrano… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease, and the distribution of the different
subtypes varies by race/ethnic category in the United States and by country. Established …

Haplotype analysis of the internationally distributed BRCA1 c.3331_3334delCAAG founder mutation reveals a common ancestral origin in Iberia

AMDA Tuazon, P Lott, M Bohórquez, J Benavides… - Breast cancer …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background The BRCA1 c. 3331_3334delCAAG founder mutation has been
reported in hereditary breast and ovarian cancer families from multiple Hispanic groups. We …

Development and testing of a polygenic risk score for breast cancer aggressiveness

Y Shieh, J Roger, C Yau, DM Wolf, GL Hirst… - NPJ precision …, 2023 - nature.com
Aggressive breast cancers portend a poor prognosis, but current polygenic risk scores
(PRSs) for breast cancer do not reliably predict aggressive cancers. Aggressiveness can be …

Breast cancer health disparities in Hispanics/Latinas

SJ Serrano-Gomez, MC Sanabria-Salas… - Current breast cancer …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Breast cancer incidence and mortality rates are lower in some
Hispanic/Latino subpopulations compared with non-Hispanic White women. However …