TY - JOUR
T1 - Race, nutritional status, and survival from breast cancer
AU - Coates, Ralph J.
AU - Clark, W. Scott
AU - Eley, J. William
AU - Greenberg, Raymond S.
AU - Huguly, Charles M.
AU - Brown, Robert L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Received January 2, 1990; revised July 18, 1990; accepted August 22, 1990. Supported in part by Public Health Service contracts N01-CN55131 and N01-CN55429 from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. R. J. Coates, W. S. Clark, R. S. Greenberg (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics), J. W. Eley (Winship Cancer Center), C M. Huguley, Jr. (Department of Medicine), R. L. Brown (Department of Surgery), Emory Unhwsity, Atlanta, Ga. We thank the patients, physicians, and nurse coordinators who participated in this study. 'Correspondence to: Ralph J. Coates, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Emory University, 1599 Clifton Rd., N.E., Atlanta, GA 30329.
PY - 1990/11/7
Y1 - 1990/11/7
N2 - The effects of nutritional status on differences in the survival of black and white women with brest cancer were studied in a cohort of 1, 960 Georgia women diagnosed during 1975-1979. After data were adjusted for stage of disease, socioeconomic status, and other prognostic factors, poorer survival rates were shown in black women. Within each stage classification, lower levels of serum albumin and hemoglobin and higher relative body weight were more common among blacks and were independently associated with poorer survival. Among women with stage 3 disease, adjustment for these variables substantially reduced the excess mortality rate among blacks, suggesting that racial differences in survival may be partly explained by differences in nutritional status or extent of disease within stage. [J Natl Cancer Inst 82:1684-1692, 1990].
AB - The effects of nutritional status on differences in the survival of black and white women with brest cancer were studied in a cohort of 1, 960 Georgia women diagnosed during 1975-1979. After data were adjusted for stage of disease, socioeconomic status, and other prognostic factors, poorer survival rates were shown in black women. Within each stage classification, lower levels of serum albumin and hemoglobin and higher relative body weight were more common among blacks and were independently associated with poorer survival. Among women with stage 3 disease, adjustment for these variables substantially reduced the excess mortality rate among blacks, suggesting that racial differences in survival may be partly explained by differences in nutritional status or extent of disease within stage. [J Natl Cancer Inst 82:1684-1692, 1990].
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U2 - 10.1093/jnci/82.21.1684
DO - 10.1093/jnci/82.21.1684
M3 - Article
C2 - 2231755
AN - SCOPUS:0025690038
SN - 0027-8874
VL - 82
SP - 1684
EP - 1692
JO - Journal of the National Cancer Institute
JF - Journal of the National Cancer Institute
IS - 21
ER -