## Abstract ## BACKGROUND. African Americans (AA) have higher mortality from breast cancer compared with white Americans (WA). Studies using populationβbased cancer registries have attributed this to disparities in treatment after normalizing the AA and WA populations for differences in disease st
Lack of a significant independent effect of race on survival in breast cancer
β Scribed by R. D. Dansey; P. A. Hessel; S. Browde; M. Lange; D. Derman; M. Nissenbaum; W. R. Bezwoda
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 461 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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