The role of racial and ethnic discrimination in breast cancer disparities

Breast cancer: Inaction on inequalities has led to unequal progress, say experts

“…An accompanying comment piece said that racial and ethnic discrimination must be tackled in order to close the equity gap for breast cancer. Jennifer Moodley from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Karla Unger-Saldaña from the National Cancer Institute of Mexico highlighted that for breast cancer there is evidence from different countries that minority racial and ethnic groups present with more advanced cancer, more aggressive biological subtypes, and have worse survival rates than other groups 2…”