Differences in treatment patterns for localized breast carcinoma among Asian/Pacific Islander women

Cancer

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2268-2275

  Prehn, Angela W ^a,b   Topol, Barbara ^a   Stewart, Susan ^a   Glaser, Sally L ^a   O'Connor, Lilia ^a,c   West, Dee W ^a  

^a NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Minnesota Center for Health Care Ethics   (United States)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asians; Breast neoplasms; Breast conserving surgery (BCS); Epidemiology; Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER); Hormone therapy; Pacific Islanders; Radiation therapy; Surveillance; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHINESE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHILIPPINES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIA; ASIAN AMERICANS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PACIFIC ISLANDS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0036890076     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10965     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. NIH Consensus Conference. Treatment of early-stage breast cancer. JAMA. 1991;265:391-395.
2. Ayanian JZ, Guadagnoli E. Variations in breast cancer treatment by patient and provider characteristics. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 1996;40:65-74.
3. Dunmore C, Plummer P, Regan G, Mattingly D, Jackson S, Millikan R. Race and differences in breast cancer survival in a managed care population [letter]. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2000; 92:1690-1691.
4. Farrow DC, Hunt WC, Samet JM. Geographic variation in the treatment of localized breast cancer. N Engl J Med. 1992;326:1097-1101.
5. Johantgen ME, Coffey RM, Harris DR, Levy H, Clinton JJ. Treating early-stage breast cancer: Hospital characteristics associated with breast-conserving surgery. Am J Public Health. 1995;85:1432-1434.
6. Legorreta AP, Liu X, Parker RG. Examining the use of breastconserving treatment for women with breast cancer in a managed care environment. Am J Clin Oncol. 2000;23:438-441.
7. McWhorter WP, Mayer WL. Black/white differences in type of initial breast cancer treatment and implications for survival. Am J Public Health. 1987;77:1515-1517.
8. Michalski TA, Nattinger AB. The influence of black race and socioeconomic status on the use of breast-conserving surgery for Medicare beneficiaries. Cancer. 1997;79:314-319.
9. Morris CR, Cohen R, Schlag R, Wright WE. Increasing trends in the use of breast-conserving surgery in California. Am J Public Health. 2000;90:281-284.
10. Muss HB, Hunter CP, Wesley M, et al. Treatment plans for black and white women with stage II node-positive breast cancer. The National Cancer Institute Black/White Cancer Survival Study experience. Cancer. 1992;70:2460-2467.
11. Roetzheim RG, Gonzalez EC, Ferrante JM, Pal N, Van Durme DJ, Krischer JP. Effects of health insurance and race on breast carcinoma treatments and outcomes. Cancer. 2000; 89:2202-2213.
12. Velanovich V, Yood MU, Bawle U, et al. Racial differences in the presentation and surgical management of breast cancer. Surgery. 1999;125:375-379.
13. Asian and Pacific Islander Center for Census Information and Services. Our Ten Years of Growth: A Demographic Analysis on Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. San Francisco: APICCIS, 1992.
14. Miller BA, Kolonel LN, Bernstein L, et al., eds. Racial/Ethnic Patterns of Cancer in the United States, 1988-1992. NIH Pub. No. 96-4104. Bethesda: National Cancer Institute, 1996.
15. Prehn A, Lin S, Clarke C, et al. Cancer Incidence in Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos in the US and Asia, 1988-1992. Union City, CA: Northern California Cancer Center, 1999.
16. Ries LAG, Eisner MP, Kosary CL, et al., eds. SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1973-1998. Bethesda: National Cancer Institute, 2001.
17. Fleming ID, Cooper JS, Henson DE, et al., eds. American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging Manual, 5th Edition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1997.
18. Percy C, Van Holten V, Muir C, eds. International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, 2nd Ed. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1990.
19. Bureau of the Census. Census of Population and Housing, 1990: Summary Tape File 3 on CD-ROM (Machine-readable Data Files). Washington, DC: Bureau of the Census, 1992.
20. National Cancer Institute. Physician's Data Query Information for Health Care Professionals, Breast Cancer. Bethesda: National Cancer Institute, 1995.
21. SAS for UNIX. Version 6.12. Cary, NC: Statistical Analysis Software, 1996.
22. Stata 5.0 for Windows 95/NT. College Station, TX: Stata Corporation, 1998.
23. Kagawa-Singer M, Wellisch DK, Durvasula R. Impact of breast cancer on Asian American and Anglo American women. Cult Med Psychiatry. 1997;21:449-480.
24. Lin SS, Phan JC, Lin AY. Breast cancer characteristics of Vietnamese women in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. West J Med. 2002;176:87-91.
25. Lee MM. Breast cancer in Asian women [commentary]. West J Med. 2002;176:91-92.
26. Maskarinec G, Dhakal S, Yamashiro G, Issell BF. The use of breast conserving surgery: Linking insurance claims with tumor registry data. BMC Cancer. 2002;2:3. Available from URL: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/2/3 [April 5, 2002].
27. Lee MM, Lin SS, Wrensch MR, Adler SR, Eisenberg D. Alternative therapies used by women with breast cancer in four ethnic populations. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2000;92:42-47.
28. Albain KS, Green SR, Lichter AS, et al. Influence of patient characteristics, socioeconomic factors, geography and systemic risk on the use of breast-sparing treatment in women enrolled in adjuvant breast cancer studies: An analysis of two intergroup trials. J Clin Oncol. 1996;14:3009-3017.
29. Morrow M, Bucci C, Rademaker A. Medical contraindications are not a major factor in the underutilization of breast conserving therapy. J Am Coll Surg. 1998;186:269-274.
30. Krieger N. Overcoming the absence of socioeconomic data in medical records: Validation and application of a census-based methodology. Am J Public Health. 1992;82:703-710.
31. Hislop TG, Olivotto IA, Coldman AJ, et al. Variations in breast conservation surgery for women with axillary lymph node negative breast cancer in British Columbia. Can J Public Health. 1996;87:390-394.
32. Samet JM, Hunt WC, Farrow DC. Determinants of receiving breast-conserving surgery. The Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results program, 1983-1986. Cancer. 1994;73:2344-2351.
33. Facione NC, Giancarlo C, Chan L. Perceived risk and help-seeking behavior for breast cancer: A Chinese-American perspective. Cancer Nurs. 2000;23:258-267.
34. Nilchaikovit T, Hill JM, Holland JC. The effects of culture on illness behavior and medical care: Asian and American differences. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 1993;15:41-50.
35. Mo B. Modesty, sexuality and breast health in Chinese-American women. West J Med. 1992;157:260-264.
36. Tang TS, Solomon LJ, McCracken LM. Cultural barriers to mammography, clinical breast exam, and breast self-exam among Chinese-American women 60 and older. Prevent Med. 2000;31:575-583.
37. Muller JH, Desmond B. Ethical dilemmas in a cross-cultural context: A Chinese example. West J Med. 1992;157:323-327.
38. Seow A, Straughan PT, Ng EH, Emmanuel SC, Tan CH, Lee HP. Factors determining acceptability of mammography in an Asian population: A study among women in Singapore. Cancer Causes Control. 1997;8:771-779.
39. Blackhall LJ, Murphy ST, Frank G, Michel V, Azen S. Ethnicity and attitudes toward patient autonomy. JAMA. 1995;274:820-825.
40. Takeuchi DT, Young KNJ. Overview of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. In: Zane NWS, Takeuchi DT, Young KNJ. Confronting Critical Health Issues in Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994:3-21.
41. Winchester DP, Cox JD. Standards for Diagnosis and Management of Invasive Breast Carcinoma. CA. 1998;48:83-107.
42. Chow LWC, Au GKH, Poon RTP. Breast conservation therapy for invasive breast cancer in Hong Kong: Factors affecting recurrence and survival in Chinese women. Aust N Z J Surg. 1997;67:94-97.
43. Ng EH, Chiang G, Sng I, Nambiar R, Soo KC. Difficulty of obtaining wide tumour to deep fascial margins in Asian women with breast cancers: Implications on treatment and prognosis. Ann Acad Med Singapore. 1996;23:241-444.
44. Alagaratnam TT, Wong J. Limitations of mammography in Chinese females. Clin Radiol. 1985;36:175-177.
45. Abrams JS, Phillips PH, Friedman MA, Meeting highlights: A reappraisal of research results for the local treatment of early stage breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1995;87:1837-1845.
46. Abrams J, Chen T, Giusti R. Special communication from the National Cancer Institute: Survival after breast-sparing surgery versus mastectomy [news]. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1994;86: 1672-1673.
47. Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group. Systemic treatment of early breast cancer by hormonal, cytotoxic, or immune therapy: 133 randomised trials involving 31,000 recurrences and 24,000 deaths among 75,000 women. Lancet. 1992;339:1-15.
48. Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group. Systemic treatment of early breast cancer by hormonal, cytotoxic, or immune therapy: 133 randomised trials involving 31,000 recurrences and 24,000 deaths among 75,000 women. Lancet. 1992;339:71-85.