Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer and Genomic Uncertainty: A QuantCrit Mini-Review
African American women are 39-44% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women. This stable racial disparity in mortality rates has persisted since the 1980s and is unlikely to improve unless specific factors leading to disparities are discovered. Racial health disparities should be unders...
Main Author: | Gerido Lynette Hammond |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2020-04-01
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Series: | Open Information Science |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2020-0004 |
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