Racial Disparities in Triple Negative Breast Cancer: A Review of the Role of Biologic and Non-biologic Factors

Racial Disparities in Triple Negative Breast Cancer: A Review of the Role of Biologic and Non-biologic Factors

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer that lacks expression of the estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER2). TNBC constitutes about 15–30 percent of all diagnosed invasive breast cancer cases in the...

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Main Authors: Om Prakash, Fokhrul Hossain, Denise Danos, Adam Lassak, Richard Scribner, Lucio Miele
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:
triple negative breast cancer
racial disparities
African-American women
non-hispanic whites
socioeconomic status
obesity
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.576964/full

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