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Black women have higher recurrence and mortality rates than non-Hispanic white women for certain types of breast cancer, according to a University of Illinois Chicago researcher s study published recently in
JAMA Oncology.
Dr. Kent Hoskins, associate professor in the UIC College of Medicine s division of hematology/oncology, and co-leader of the Breast Cancer Research group in the University of Illinois Cancer Center, published the study, Association of race/ethnicity and the 21-gene Recurrence Score with breast cancer-specific mortality among US women in the Jan. 21 online issue.
Hoskins and the research team sought to discover if breast cancer-specific mortality among women with estrogen receptor-positive, axillary node-negative breast cancer differs by race within risk categories defined by the Oncotype Recurrence Score, or RS, which is a genomic test that analyzes the activity of a group of genes that can affect how a cancer is likely to behave and respond to tre