ArticleNPJ breast cancer2025
Racial discrimination among women seeking breast cancer care.
Article in NPJ breast cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Self-reported racial and ethnic discrimination in patient-provider interactions and the initiation of adjuvant therapies for breast cancer in the pathways study.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2026Article
- Perceived Discrimination and Healthcare System Trust as Barriers to Survivorship Care in Endometrial Cancer.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
- Perceived racial discrimination in health care in relation to late stage at breast cancer diagnosis.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2025Article
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Abstract
Discrimination can contribute to worse health outcomes, but its prevalence in breast cancer is not well studied. We aimed to understand how women with stage I-III breast cancer faced discrimination in health care and everyday settings through the Everyday Discrimination Scale, cross-sectional survey. 296 women, 178 (60%) Non-Hispanic White (NHW), 76 (26%) Non-Hispanic Black (NHB), and 42 (14%) Hispanic participated. NHB women reported significantly more discrimination in everyday life compared to NHW women (score 20.1 vs 16.1, p < 0.001) and Hispanic women (score 20.1 vs 16.0, p < 0.001). In the health care setting, NHB had statistically more frequent reports of being ignored (23.7% vs. 5.6%), treated with less respect (21.1% vs. 7.3%), and treated with less courtesy (18.7% vs. 6.2%; all P = < 0.001) when compared to NHW women. NHB women experience a higher degree of discrimination both inside and outside of health care. Further research to understand discrimination on breast cancer outcomes is warranted.
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