Racial and ethnic differences in breast cancer survival: How much is explained by screening, tumor severity, biology, treatment, comorbidities, and demographics?

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Racial and ethnic differences in breast cancer survival: How much is explained by screening, tumor severity, biology, treatment, comorbidities, and demographics?

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BACKGROUND. The reasons for race/ethnicity (R/E) differences in breast cancer survival have been difficult to disentangle. METHODS. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare data were used to identify 41,020 women aged ≥68 years with incident breast cancer between 1994–1999 including African American (2479), Hispanic (1172), Asian/Pacific Island (1086), and white women (35,878). A Cox proportional hazards model assessed overall and stage-specific (0/I, II/III, and IV) R/E di...

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2008

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Curtis, Elana / Quale, C / Haggstrom, D / Smith-Bindman, R

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/13271

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