Ethnicity, survival, and delay in seeking treatment for symptoms of breast cancer.

作者: Sally W. Vernon , Barbara C. Tilley , Anne Victoria Neale , Lois Steinfeldt

DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19850401)55:7<1563::AID-CNCR2820550726>3.0.CO;2-1

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摘要: This study examined differences in 10-year survival rates from breast cancer among white, black, and Hispanic women controlling for the effects of age, socioeconomic status (SES), stage disease, delay seeking treatment symptoms. Breast patients (n = 1983) treated at M. D. Anderson Hospital Tumor Institute Houston, Texas between 1949 1968, were followed 10 years. Ethnicity, SES, all found to affect when considered separately. Black less likely survive than either white or whose experience appeared be similar. Multivariate analysis that used a Cox regression technique showed ethnic remained stage, included model. In contrast, authors could not detect an effect on ethnicity other variables included. These data suggest are mediated by

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