Published 12 January 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b91
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b91

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Ethnicity influences breast cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment but not survival, study finds

Roger Dobson

1 Abergavenny

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A woman’s risk of getting breast cancer, the stage at which it is diagnosed, and the treatment she gets all vary with ethnic background, a new UK study has found.

But the researchers found, after adjusting fully for age, level of socioeconomic deprivation, stage of disease, and treatment received, that survival from breast cancer did not vary significantly (British Journal of Cancer doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604852).

The researchers, from King’s College London, analysed data on 35 631 women who received a diagnosis of breast cancer in southeast England between 1998 and 2003. The ethnic groups they looked at were white, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, black Caribbean, black African, and Chinese.

They found that white women had the highest age standardised incidence of breast cancer and Bangladeshi women had the lowest. Incidence rate ratios calculated with that among white women as the baseline were all significantly lower: Indian 0.68 (95% confidence interval . . . [Full text of this article]


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