Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, BLDG BDB 515, 1807 Seventh Ave South, Birmingham, AL, 35233, USA.
O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Cancer Causes Control. 2022 Dec;33(12):1387-1390. doi: 10.1007/s10552-022-01641-3. Epub 2022 Oct 14.
Breast Cancer is the most common female cancer worldwide with significant global disparities, particularly disadvantaging women of African Ancestry. Though the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa are seemingly very different settings, there are many important parallels between the experience of getting diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in these two geographic regions for women of African ancestry. This commentary explores the parallels and differences and proposes an agenda to move forward to narrow the disparities gaps for some of the worlds most vulnerable women.
乳腺癌是全球范围内最常见的女性癌症,存在显著的全球差异,尤其使非洲裔女性处于不利地位。尽管美国和撒哈拉以南非洲似乎是截然不同的环境,但对于非洲裔女性来说,在这两个地理区域诊断和治疗乳腺癌的经历有许多重要的相似之处。本评论探讨了这些相似之处和差异,并提出了一个议程,以缩小世界上一些最脆弱女性的差距。