African American women with breast cancer less likely to have newer, recommended surgical procedure

African American women with early stage, invasive breast cancer were 12 percent less likely than Caucasian women with the same diagnosis to receive a minimally invasive technique, axillary sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy, years after the procedure had become the standard of surgical practice, according to research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The study was presented at the 2012 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium by Dalliah Mashon Black, M.D., assistant professor in MD Anderson's Department of Surgical Oncology. Read more here.