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. 2015 Jul;105 Suppl 3(Suppl 3):S446-8.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302297. Epub 2015 Apr 23.

Increasing disparities in breast cancer mortality from 1979 to 2010 for US black women aged 20 to 49 years

Anne Marie McCarthy  1 , Jianing Yang, Katrina Armstrong
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Increasing disparities in breast cancer mortality from 1979 to 2010 for US black women aged 20 to 49 years

Anne Marie McCarthy et al. Am J Public Health. 2015 Jul.

Abstract

Racial disparities in breast cancer mortality persist, and young Black women have higher disease incidence compared with White women. We compared trends in breast cancer mortality for young Black and White women with mortality trends for other common diseases from 1979 to 2010. In contrast to other cancers, ischemic heart disease, and stroke, the breast cancer mortality disparity has widened over the past 30 years, suggesting that unique aspects of disease biology, prevention, and treatment may explain persistent racial differences for young women.

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FIGURE 1—
FIGURE 1—
Age-standardized mortality rates per 100 000 for US women aged 20–49 years from (a) breast cancer, (b) cervical cancer, (c) lung cancer, (d) colorectal cancer, (e) ischemic heart disease, and (f) stroke: National Center for Health Statistics, United States, 1979–2010.
FIGURE 2—
FIGURE 2—
Ratio of Black to White age-standardized mortality rates by 3-year moving averages: National Center for Health Statistics, United States, 1979–2010.
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