A study assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black and Hispanic breast cancer (BC) survivors. The results were published in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship. This study comprised 447 Black and 182 Hispanic BC survivors who completed a home interview approximately 24 months post-diagnosis between 2017 and 2023. With the start of the COVID pandemic defined as March 2023, the researchers assessed the link between the pandemic and binary outcomes using Poisson regression models. ...
Disparities in Breast Cancer
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Researchers observed that the risk of dying from breast cancer in men with HR-positive cancer increased with cancer stage.
Andrew Hertler, MD, talks about the importance of prophylactic mastectomy for individuals carrying high-risk gene mutations.
Dr. Rachel Freedman of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is joined by colleagues to discuss barriers of cancer in breast cancer.
"Rates of post-mastectomy reconstruction in Asian Americans were much lower than non-Asian Americans.”
Support interventions are needed for managing oral endocrine therapy-related symptoms among Black breast cancer survivors.
Racial disparities exist in the initiation of chemotherapy, with a negative impact on Black women.
A study found racial disparities exist in breast cancer imaging therapy.
Black women were less likely, and Hispanics were more likely to achieve pathologic complete response to Chemo for TNBC.
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