Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am. 2022 Mar;49(1):149-165. doi: 10.1016/j.ogc.2021.11.010.
In the western world, breast cancer is the most common lethal cancer in women and the second leading cause of cancer death behind lung cancer. When assessing registry data, incidence and mortalty vary significantly by race or ethnicity and by socioeconomic status. There are a number of established risk factors, that effect risk of not just risk of breast cancer overall but the risk of certain molecular subtypes of breast cancer. Other factors in the disparity in outcomes include certain populations experiencing lower quality of care; prevention, screening, diagnosis and treatment.
在西方世界，乳腺癌是女性最常见的致命癌症，也是仅次于肺癌的第二大癌症死亡原因。在评估登记数据时，发病率和死亡率因种族或民族以及社会经济地位而有很大差异。有许多已确定的风险因素，不仅影响乳腺癌的总体风险，而且还影响某些乳腺癌分子亚型的风险。导致结果差异的其他因素包括某些人群接受的护理质量较低；预防、筛查、诊断和治疗。
