Racial differences in outcomes for patients with metastatic breast cancer by disease subtype
Vaz-Luis I, Lin NU, Keating NL, Barry WT, Lii H, Winer EP, Freedman RA. Racial differences in outcomes for patients with metastatic breast cancer by disease subtype. Breast Cancer Research And Treatment 2015, 151: 697-707. PMID: 26022349, DOI: 10.1007/s10549-015-3432-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMetastatic breast cancerDe novo metastatic breast cancerNovo metastatic breast cancerBreast cancer-specific survivalCancer-specific survivalHER2-positive tumorsOverall survivalBreast cancerTreatment patternsBlack patientsRacial differencesDisease subgroupsMultivariate Cox proportional modelEnd Results-Medicare dataHuman epidermal growth factor receptor 2Epidermal growth factor receptor 2Impact of raceHER2-positive diseaseHR-negative diseaseHR-negative tumorsLonger median OSMedian overall survivalGrowth factor receptor 2Survival of womenCox proportional models