As discussed in the introduction, black patients have a generally inferior outcome when diagnosed with breast cancer. The goal of this paper was to investigate whether the inferior outcome would extend to black patients with early-stage disease who were treated with postlumpectomy radiotherapy in a manner similar to their white counterparts. One of the strengths [...]
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Patient and Tumor Characteristics The median age of the patients was 55 years with a mean age of 56.3 years. Other important patient characteristics are summarized in Table 1. The table includes only black and white patients, since only 2.2% of the patients in the study were nonblack, nonwhite. The data was analyzed both with [...]
A retrospective chart review was undertaken of all the patients treated with radiation for breast cancer following lumpectomy at the three hospitals included in the study. The Radiation Oncology Department at each of the three hospitals included is staffed by physicians from a single academic department. The hospitals have substantially different patient populations. One of [...]
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There is substantial disagreement in the medical literature on the outcome of black breast cancer patients as compared to their white counterparts. This issue is complex, and there are a variety of ways to approach the question. The first approach is to view the issue on the broader population level. There is general agreement that [...]
