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Breast Cancer Treatment
Racial disparities uncovered in treatment among women with breast cancer
December 1st, 2005
Racial disparities were uncovered in a study exploring treatment and survival among women with breast cancer. "Black women with breast cancer are known to have poorer survival than white women," scientists writing in the Journal of Clinical Oncology reported. "Suboptimal treatment may compromise the survival benefits of adjuvant chemotherapy." D. Hershman and colleagues "analyzed the association of race and survival with duration of treatment and number of treatment cycles among women receiving chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer. Patients were women in the Henry Ford Health System tumor registry who were diagnosed with stage I/II...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-01)
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