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- Title
Epidemiology: Minority report.
- Authors
Childs, Oliver
- Abstract
The article focuses on the African-American women who have a lower incidence of breast cancer compared with white women, but have a higher rate of breast cancer mortality. A prospective study by researcher Rowan T. Chlebowski and colleagues finds that this is most likely explained by the aggressive nature of these cancers in a sizable proportion of African-American women. The authors wanted to address the limited attention within the literature given to differences in the distribution of breast cancer risk factors in ethnic minorities. To this end, they analysed data from 156,570 postmenopausal women participating in the Women's Health Initiative.
- Subjects
CANCER in women; AFRICAN American women; BREAST cancer; MORTALITY; HEALTH risk assessment; ETHNIC groups
- Publication
Nature Reviews Cancer, 2005, Vol 5, Issue 5, p339
- ISSN
1474-175X
- Publication type
Report
- DOI
10.1038/nrc1619