Monday, January 19, 2015

JAMA - Breast Cancer Stage and Survival

"Differences in Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis and Cancer-Specific Survival by Race and Ethnicity in the United States"

"Conclusions and Relevance  Among US women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, the likelihood of diagnosis at an early stage, and survival after stage I diagnosis, varied by race and ethnicity. Much of the difference could be statistically accounted for by intrinsic biological differences such as lymph node metastasis, distant metastasis, and triple-negative behavior of tumors."


http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2089353 

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