2016
Treatment of early-stage human epidermal growth factor 2-positive cancers among medicare enrollees: age and race strongly associated with non-use of trastuzumab
Vaz-Luis I, Lin NU, Keating NL, Barry WT, Lii J, Burstein HJ, Winer EP, Freedman RA. Treatment of early-stage human epidermal growth factor 2-positive cancers among medicare enrollees: age and race strongly associated with non-use of trastuzumab. Breast Cancer Research And Treatment 2016, 159: 151-162. PMID: 27484879, DOI: 10.1007/s10549-016-3927-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAdjuvant trastuzumabOlder patientsSystemic treatmentBreast cancerHuman epidermal growth factor receptor 2HER2-positive breast cancerEpidermal growth factor receptor 2HER2-positive diseaseStage III diseaseCongestive heart failureGrowth factor receptor 2Positive breast cancerFactor receptor 2Treatment omissionEndocrine therapyClinical characteristicsSystemic therapyHeart failureBlack patientsTreatment disparitiesTreatment patternsHuman epidermal growth factorEpidermal growth factorMedicare dataPatients
2015
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