October 11, 2021

Although health disparities are often studied with regard to race and ethnicity, there are also disparities present between native and foreign-born women. This study, published in Annals of Epidemiology, focused on the timing of breast cancer diagnosis for these two groups. The researchers hypothesized that immigrant women would be less likely to be diagnosed at a localized...

The breast cancer mortality gap between Black and white patients can be attributed to many factors, including socioeconomic variables, tumor biology, and genomic architecture. Detailed analyses of this gap have been well-documented in the literature, but the effect size of race across different breast cancer subtypes and survival outcomes has not been studied at length....