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ArticleCureus2021

Impact of Race and Health Insurance Status on Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer Patients.

Yvonne Ho, Alexander Harris, Michael Wesolowski, Tamer Refaat, William Small, Tarita O Thomas

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Article in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 49% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Outcomes of Breast Cancer Patients by Race and Ethnicity.Breast care (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  2. Breast care (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yvonne HoRadiation Oncology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, USA.
Alexander HarrisRadiation Oncology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, USA.
Michael WesolowskiBiostatistics, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, USA.
Tamer RefaatRadiation Oncology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, USA.
William SmallRadiation Oncology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, USA.
Tarita O ThomasRadiation Oncology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, USA.
Loyola University Chicago · USHenry Ford Health System · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We evaluated how race, insurance status, and other sociodemographic, tumor, and treatment variables influenced the response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in breast cancer. We performed an IRB-approved retrospective review of 298 breast cancer patients treated with NAC from 2006-2018 at our institution. Univariable and multivariable binary logistic regression analyses were performed to estimate the effects of race, insurance status, and other variables on outcomes. Outcomes of interest included pathologic complete response (pCR), partial response (pPR), and any response (pCR or pPR). Sixty-nine patients (23%) identified as African American. One hundred sixty-eight (57%) patients had private insurance, 71 (24%) had Medicare, 40 (14%) had Medicaid, and 17 (6%) had no insurance. Insurance status was a predictor for any clinical response to NAC in both univariable and multivariable analyses (

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breast cancerinsuranceneoadjuvant chemotherapyraceresponse rate

Identifiers

PMID34367759
PMCPMC8330506
OpenAlexW3187391325

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