Narrowing Racial Gaps in Breast Cancer: Factors Affecting Probability of Adjuvant Radiation Therapy

Narrowing Racial Gaps in Breast Cancer: Factors Affecting Probability of Adjuvant Radiation Therapy

Purpose: Adjuvant radiation therapy has historically been underused by black patients with breast cancer compared with white patients. We prospectively investigated factors, including sociocultural, psychosocial, and health care factors, that may be associated with the use or omission of adjuvant ra...

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Main Authors:	Felicia Snead, MD, Alexander N. Slade, MD, PhD, Bridget A. Oppong, MD, Arnethea L. Sutton, PhD, Vanessa B. Sheppard, PhD
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2020-01-01
Series:	Advances in Radiation Oncology
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452109419301010

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