African-American ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and breast cancer survival (original) (raw)

Abstract

BACKGROUND. African-American women are at increased risk for breast cancer mortality compared with white American women, and the extent to which socioeconomic factors account for this outcome disparity is unclear.

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