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Racial differences in treatment and survival from early-stage breast carcinoma

✍ Scribed by Sue A. Joslyn

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
79 KB
Volume
95
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-543X

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Abstract

BACKGROUND

African‐American women have a significantly worse prognosis from breast carcinoma compared with white women, even when the stage at diagnosis is equivalent. The purpose of this study was to analyze racial differences in the treatment (use of breast‐conserving surgery and radiation therapy) of women with early‐stage breast carcinoma and the resulting effects on survival rates.

METHODS

Subjects included 10,073 African‐American and 123,127 white women diagnosed with Stage I, IIA, or IIB breast carcinoma in the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program between 1988 and 1998. Comparisons were made by race with treatment, age, hormone receptor status, and stage at the time of diagnosis. Survival analyses were conducted to compare risk of death for African‐American and white women while controlling for age, stage, and hormone receptor status.

RESULTS

Among women diagnosed with early‐stage breast carcinoma who receive breast‐conserving surgery, African‐American women were significantly less likely to receive follow‐up radiation therapy in every 10‐year age group except in the older than 85 age group. Whether treatment was equivalent or suboptimal, survival for African‐American women with early‐stage breast carcinoma was significantly worse. However, when treatment was equivalent, the effects of racial differences on survival were significantly less compared with survival associated with suboptimal treatment.

CONCLUSIONS

Significant racial differences exist in the treatment of women with early‐stage breast carcinoma. Public health efforts to eliminate suboptimal treatment would reduce, but not eliminate, racial disparity in survival. Cancer 2002;95:1759–66. © 2002 American Cancer Society.

DOI 10.1002/cncr.10827

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