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Racial Differences in Time to Breast Cancer Surgery and Overall Survival in the US Military Health System

Yvonne L. Eaglehouse, Matthew W. Georg, Craig D. Shriver, Kangmin Zhu

JAMA Surgery · 2019 · 65 citations · 33 references

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This study's results indicate that time to breast cancer surgery was delayed for NHB compared with NHW women in the Military Health System. However, the racial differences in TTS did not explain the observed racial differences in overall survival among women who received breast-conserving surgery.

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