Race, breast cancer, and prognosis: Where biology is queen?

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¹ Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
² Department of Medicine and Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

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Jane L Meisel et al. Cancer. 2019.

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. 2019 Sep 15;125(18):3104-3106.

doi: 10.1002/cncr.32294. Epub 2019 Jun 17.

¹ Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
² Department of Medicine and Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

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Keywords: breast cancer; genetic counseling; outcomes; race; triple negative.

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