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SUBMITTER: Pastoriza JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6202136 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pastoriza Jessica M JM Karagiannis George S GS Lin Juan J Lanjewar Sonali S Entenberg David D Condeelis John S JS Sparano Joseph A JA Xue Xiaonan X Rohan Thomas E TE Oktay Maja H MH
Clinical & experimental metastasis 20180822 7
Black race compared to white race is associated with more advanced stage and biologically aggressive breast cancer. Consequently, black patients are more frequently treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) than white patients. However, it is unclear how distant recurrence-free survival (DRFS) of black patients treated with NAC, compares to DRFS of black patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy (AC). We evaluated the association between race, distant recurrence, and type of chemotherapy (AC ...[more]