Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States

• Published in: British journal of cancer Vol. 124; no. 2; pp. 315 - 332
• Main Authors: Zavala, Valentina A., Bracci, Paige M., Carethers, John M., Carvajal-Carmona, Luis, Coggins, Nicole B., Cruz-Correa, Marcia R., Davis, Melissa, de Smith, Adam J., Dutil, Julie, Figueiredo, Jane C., Fox, Rena, Graves, Kristi D., Gomez, Scarlett Lin, Llera, Andrea, Neuhausen, Susan L., Newman, Lisa, Nguyen, Tung, Palmer, Julie R., Palmer, Nynikka R., Pérez-Stable, Eliseo J., Piawah, Sorbarikor, Rodriquez, Erik J., Sanabria-Salas, María Carolina, Schmit, Stephanie L., Serrano-Gomez, Silvia J., Stern, Mariana C., Weitzel, Jeffrey, Yang, Jun J., Zabaleta, Jovanny, Ziv, Elad, Fejerman, Laura
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 19.01.2021; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/67/2324; 692/4028/67/2324; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Breast; Cancer; Cancer Research; Colon; Drug Resistance; Epidemiology; Ethnicity - statistics & numerical data; Etiology; Female; Health disparities; Health Status Disparities; Humans; Leukemia; Male; Minority & ethnic groups; Minority Groups - statistics & numerical data; Molecular Medicine; Neoplasms - ethnology; Oncology; Pancreas; Prostate; Racism; Review; Review Article; United States - ethnology; United States; United States > US

There are well-established disparities in cancer incidence and outcomes by race/ethnicity that result from the interplay between structural, socioeconomic, socio-environmental, behavioural and biological factors. However, large research studies designed to investigate factors contributing to cancer...