Racial disparities in chemotherapy administration for early-stage breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Angela K GreenEmeline M AvikiKonstantina MatsoukasSujata PatilDeborah KorensteinVictoria Blinder

Published in: Breast cancer research and treatment (2018)

These results suggest that black breast cancer patients experience clinically relevant delays in the initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy more often than white patients, which may in part explain the increased mortality observed among black patients.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
early stage
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
patient reported outcomes
risk factors
coronary artery disease
lymph node