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NIH R01 · 2024

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Ovarian Cancer Treatment and Survival: An Integrative Approach

ABSTRACT Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the fifth leading cause of cancer deaths in women. Compared to non- Hispanic white (NHW) women, African American (AA) women have much poorer survival after an EOC diagnosis, which, as we have found, may be in part due to AA women being less likely to receive standard-of- care therapy, and more likely to have chemotherapy dose reduction, even within an equal-access healthcare system. However, these factors do not completely explain survival disparities among AAs, and furthermore, little is known about other groups (e.g., Hispanics and Asians/Pacific Islanders (API)), although there is some evidence that Hispanic women also experience worse…

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