Racial/ethnic differences in breast cancer survival among San Francisco Bay Area women

Abstract
Considerable attention has been directed to the observation that the ageadjusted incidence of female breast cancer in the San Francisco Bay Area (114 per 100 000 persons) 1 is higher than the national incidence (109 per 100 000 persons) 2 and is approximately 50% higher than in most European countries ( 1 ) . Although breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the San Francisco Bay Area, its incidence varies substantially by racial/ethnic group (average annual age-adjusted rates per 100 000 persons, 1988-1993, of 128 for whites, 102 for blacks, 86 for Japanese, 83 for Hispanics, 76 for Filipinos, and 69 for Chinese).

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