Work

Population Differences in Breast Cancer: Survey in Indigenous African Women Reveals Over-Representation of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Year: 2020

Type: article

Study design: Observational Study

Abstract: Compared with white women, black women experience a disproportionate burden of aggressive breast cancer for reasons that remain unknown and understudied. In the first study of its kind, we determined the distribution of molecular subtypes of invasive breast tumors in indigenous black women in West Africa.

Source: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

DOI: 10.17615/02pp-e416

Authors: Zhang, Bifeng, Nanda, Rita, Adeoye, Adewumi O., Grushko, Tatyana, Perou, Charles M., Malami, Sani, Zhang, Chunling, Falusi, Adeyinka, Odetunde, Abayomi, Dangou, Jean-Marie, Olopade, Olufunmilayo I., Iyare, Festus, Oluwasola, Olayiwola, Huo, Dezheng, Dignam, James, Khramtsov, Andrey, Malaka, David, Ikpatt, Francis

Language: English

Topic: Breast Cancer Treatment Studies

Subfield: Cancer Research

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Good health and well-being, Gender equality

Open Access status: green

Funders: Breast Cancer Research Foundation, National Cancer Institute

Awards: G1012815014, G108258030, G1391097410, G2407663899, G870117454, G8880508232

OpenAlex ID: W4298358463

FWCI: 0.934

Cites:

Cited by: 29

Related to: 10