Differences in the health and tumour characteristics of white and black women with breast cancer at the time of their diagnoses may be largely to blame for the disparity in survival between the two groups, a new study suggests. Disparities in treatment quality are not the main problem, the researchers conclude, after finding that if differences in the women’s overall health and the degree to which the cancer had advanced at the time of diagnosis were eliminated, the survival gap would shrink dramatically. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Silber JH, et al. Characteristics Associated With Differences in Survival Among Black and White Women With Breast Cancer. JAMA. 2013;310(4):389-397.
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