Hispanic women were significantly more likely to survive breast cancer after lumpectomies or mastectomies than Black or white women during 2004 and 2014.
Researchers at Washington University and Duke University analyzed the medical records in the National Cancer Institute database of more 900,000 women treated for breast cancer and found that Hispanic women were about 25 percent less likely to die from any cause during this time frame.
- see “Trends and Outcomes Among Hispanic Women of Different Races With Breast Cancer” by By Matthew Stenger on the American Society of Clinical Oncology Post website (October 27, 2020)
- See the abstract of the scientific paper “Disparities at the Intersection of Race and Ethnicity: Examining Trends and Outcomes in Hispanic Women With Breast Cancer” by Cosette D Champion et al.
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