S8 Ep11: The Patients Missing From Breast Cancer Data
A single label can hide a lot. In this episode of Targeted Talks, two researchers look at what broad racial and ethnic categories obscure in breast cancer research, and what it would take to see more clearly.
First, Scarlett Lin Gomez, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, discusses a large study of survival among Asian American women with breast cancer. Her team confirmed that most of the larger Asian American ethnic groups had better survival than non-Hispanic white women. They then adjusted for clinical, treatment, lifestyle, and…
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