𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

Breast carcinoma in African-American and White women : Application of molecular biology to understand outcome disparities

✍ Scribed by Lisa A. Newman

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
55 KB
Volume
101
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-543X

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The door to improved understanding of ethnicity‐related variations in breast carcinoma risk and outcome has now been wedged open by the powerful tools of molecular biology. It is the responsibility of clinicians and investigators to accept the challenge of conducting the studies, collecting and interpreting the data, and validating the results.

See also pages 1293–301.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Reproductive factors and risk of breast
Reproductive factors and risk of breast carcinoma in a study of white and African-American women
✍ Giske Ursin; Leslie Bernstein; Yaping Wang; Sarah J. Lord; Dennis Deapen; Jonath 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 100 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Few studies have investigated the association between reproductive factors and the risk of breast carcinoma among African‐American women. The authors assessed whether the number of full‐term pregnancies, age at first full‐term pregnancy, and total duration of breastfeedin

Widening disparity in survival between w
Widening disparity in survival between white and African-American patients with breast carcinoma treated in the U. S. Department of Defense Healthcare system
✍ Ismail Jatoi; Heiko Becher; Charles R. Leake 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 77 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract ## BACKGROUND In the U. S., age‐adjusted breast carcinoma mortality rates among white and African‐American women have been diverging during the last 20 years. Some investigators speculate that the widening disparity is due to inequalities in access to healthcare, with African Americans

Quality of life concerns in patients wit
Quality of life concerns in patients with breast cancer : Evidence for disparity of outcomes and experiences in pain management and palliative care among African-American women
✍ Richard Payne; Eduardo Medina; James W. Hampton 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 94 KB 👁 2 views

## Background: African-american women are at higher risk for breast cancer mortality compared with their white counterparts. furthermore, african-american women present for diagnosis and treatment later in the disease process. it may be expected that this greater disease burden would impose more sy

Racial differences in the expression of
Racial differences in the expression of cell cycle–regulatory proteins in breast carcinoma : Study of young African American and white women in Atlanta, Georgia
✍ Peggy L. Porter; Mary Jo Lund; Ming Gang Lin; Xiaopu Yuan; Jonathan M. Liff; Ela 📂 Article 📅 2004 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 106 KB 👁 1 views

## Abstract ## BACKGROUND African‐American (AA) women are more likely to be diagnosed with an advanced stage of breast carcinoma than are white women. After adjustment for disease stage, many studies indicate that tumors in AA women are more likely than tumors in white women are to exhibit a high