NEW YORK, March 19 -- Men with breast cancer show the same racial disparities in survival as do women with the disease, according to a small population-based study.
Medicare-age black men with breast cancer were three times more likely to die from the disease than white men (hazard ratio 3.29, 95% confidence interval 1.10 to 9.86), said Dawn L. Hershman, M.D., M.S., of Columbia University, and colleagues.
These findings parallel those of previous studies among women, which have shown higher breast cancer mortality rates for black women at all ages, they wrote in a study published online March 16 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
"Racial disparities in breast cancer outcomes between black and white women have been attributed to advanced stage at diagnosis, negative HR [hormone receptor] status, higher tumor grade, reduced access to health care, and other socioeconomic factors," they added.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/BreastCancer/tb1/5273
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