Breast Cancer

Treatments, outcomes differ widely among women of different races, ethnicities

Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 13th, 2003

Important disparities in breast-cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survival among American women of various racial and ethnic backgrounds are documented in a new study by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

These findings by Christopher Li, MD, PhD, and colleagues, published Jan. 13 in Archives of Internal Medicine, are based on the largest, most comprehensive study of its kind to evaluate the relationship between race/ethnicity and breast-cancer stage, treatment and survival. The study evaluated data from nearly 125,000 women representing all major racial/ethnic populations and subpopulations in the United States, the majority of...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2003-02-13)

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