## Abstract ## BACKGROUND The age specific breast cancer incidence rate for AfricanβAmerican women under age 35 is more than twice the rate for white women of similar age, and the mortality rate is more than three times higher. To determine factors that may explain racial/ethnic variation in outco
Racial/ethnic group differences in treatment decision-making and treatment received among older breast carcinoma patients
β Scribed by Rose C. Maly; Yoshiko Umezawa; Carl T. Ratliff; Barbara Leake
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 131 KB
- Volume
- 106
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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