Jim Crow and estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer: US-born black and white non-Hispanic women, 1992–2012

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 49-59

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Jahn, Jaquelyn L ^a   Waterman, Pamela D ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Americans; Breast cancer estrogen receptor; Health inequities; Jim Crow; Racial disparities; Segregation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; BLACK PERSON; BREAST CANCER; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CAUCASIAN; CIVIL RIGHTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; FEMALE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR POSITIVE BREAST CANCER; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; BREAST TUMOR; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RACISM; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85006356577     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-016-0834-2     Document Type: Article

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