NIH R01 · 2025
Project Summary African American (AA) women experience higher rates of breast cancer mortality, even when accounting for confounding clinical and sociodemographic factors. This disparity reflects in part the fact that AA women in the US are approximately twice as likely as Caucasian (CA) women to develop Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC), a particularly aggressive breast cancer subset. However, even among those with TNBC, AA race is independently associated with inferior treatment responses and poorer survival rates. These and other data including our own work have led to an emerging consensus that that this excess mortality is due in part to biological differences between TNBCs in AA…
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