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The Emergence of the Racial Disparity in US Breast-Cancer Mortality

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NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 386, Issue 25, Pages 2349-2352

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MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2200244

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The racial disparity in breast-cancer mortality in the United States is due to the unequal benefit derived by Black women from interventions such as mammography screening and adjuvant endocrine therapy. Removing barriers to health care access could help mitigate the racial divide in breast-cancer mortality.
Racial Disparity in U.S. Breast-Cancer Mortality Black women have derived less benefit from interventions such as mammography screening and adjuvant endocrine therapy than White women. Removing barriers to health care access could mitigate the racial divide in breast-cancer mortality.

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