Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dietze, Eric C
• Sistrunk, Christopher
• Miranda-Carboni, Gustavo
• O'Regan, Ruth
• Seewaldt, Victoria L

Titel

Triple-negative breast cancer in African-American women: disparities versus biology

Ist Teil von

• Nature reviews. Cancer, 2015-04, Vol.15 (4), p.248-254

Ort / Verlag

England

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive breast cancer subtype that disproportionately affects BRCA1 mutation carriers and young women of African origin. There is evidence that African-American women with TNBC have worse clinical outcomes than women of European descent. However, it is unclear whether survival differences persist after adjusting for disparities in access to health-care treatment, co-morbid disease and income. It remains controversial whether TNBC in African-American women is a molecularly distinct disease or whether African-American women have a higher incidence of aggressive biology driven by disparities: there is evidence in support of both. Understanding the relative contributions of biology and disparities is essential for improving the poor survival rate of African-American women with TNBC.