African American women with breast cancer less likely to have newer, recommended surgical procedure
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 20:30
in Health & Medicine
African American women with early stage, invasive breast cancer were 12 percent less likely than Caucasian women with the same diagnosis to receive a minimally invasive technique, axillary sentinel lymph node biopsy, even as the procedure had become the standard of surgical practice, according to research.