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 …

Epidemiology of triple-negative breast cancer: a review

FM Howard, OI Olopade - The Cancer Journal, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Triple-negative breast cancer accounted for 12% of breast cancers diagnosed in the United
States from 2012 to 2016, with a 5-year survival 8% to 16% lower than hormone receptor …

Mutational spectrum in a worldwide study of 29,700 families with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations

TR Rebbeck, TM Friebel, E Friedman… - Human …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The prevalence and spectrum of germline mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 have been
reported in single populations, with the majority of reports focused on White in Europe and …

Prevalence of variant reclassification following hereditary cancer genetic testing

J Mersch, N Brown, S Pirzadeh-Miller, E Mundt… - Jama, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Variant reclassification is an important component of hereditary cancer genetic
testing; however, there are few published data quantifying the prevalence of reclassification …

Triple-negative breast cancer in African-American women: disparities versus biology

EC Dietze, C Sistrunk, G Miranda-Carboni… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive breast cancer subtype that
disproportionately affects BRCA1 mutation carriers and young women of African origin …

Racial disparity and triple-negative breast cancer in African-American women: a multifaceted affair between obesity, biology, and socioeconomic determinants

S Siddharth, D Sharma - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a molecularly heterogeneous disease whose
incidence is disproportionately higher in African American (AA) women compared to …

Awareness, knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes towards genetic testing for cancer risk among ethnic minority groups: a systematic review

KEJ Hann, M Freeman, L Fraser, J Waller… - BMC public health, 2017 - Springer
Background Genetic testing for risk of hereditary cancer can help patients to make important
decisions about prevention or early detection. US and UK studies show that people from …

A perfect storm: how tumor biology, genomics, and health care delivery patterns collide to create a racial survival disparity in breast cancer and proposed interventions …

B Daly, OI Olopade - CA: a cancer journal for clinicians, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
It is well known that there is a significant racial divide in breast cancer incidence and
mortality rates. African American women are less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer …

[HTML][HTML] The importance of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes mutations in breast cancer development

A Mehrgou, M Akouchekian - … journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Many factors including genetic, environmental, and acquired are involved in breast cancer
development across various societies. Among all of these factors in families with a history of …

Differences in breast carcinoma characteristics in newly diagnosed African–American and Caucasian patients: A single‐institution compilation compared with the …

GJ Morris, S Naidu, AK Topham… - … Journal of the …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Breast carcinomas in African–American patients appear to be more
aggressive than in Caucasian patients due to multifactorial differences. METHODS The …