Competing Risks Analysis of African American Breast Cancer Patients

Competing Risks Analysis of African American Breast Cancer Patients

Purpose: Recent studies showed that African Americans (AA) breast cancer patients experience lower survival than any other race. The knowledge of cause-specific survival of such patients is necessary to investigate the different factors associated with the disease and support the clinical practice. Methods: The parametric competing risk method is applied to build up the survival models and the ...

Competing Risk Analyses for African American and White Breast Cancer Patients

New insight into epirubicin cardiac toxicity: competing risks analysis of 1097 breast cancer patients.

BACKGROUND Current recommendations that cancer patients receive a maximum cumulative dose of 900 mg/m(2) epirubicin are based on the risk of epirubicin-mediated cardiotoxicity and do not take into account the competing risk of death from cancer. Here, we identify risk factors for cardiotoxicity and overall mortality and determine the cumulative dose of epirubicin that yields a 5% risk for cardi...

Competing risks analysis in mortality estimation for breast cancer patients from independent risk groups.

This study quantifies breast cancer mortality in the presence of competing risks for complex patients. Breast cancer behaves differently in different patient populations, which can have significant implications for patient survival; hence these differences must be considered when making screening and treatment decisions. Mortality estimation for breast cancer patients has been a significant res...

African American women coping with breast cancer: a qualitative analysis.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine how African American women cope with breast cancer. DESIGN Descriptive and exploratory study. SAMPLE/SETTING 66 African American women diagnosed with breast cancer were interviewed in the southeastern United States. METHODS Data were collected through tape-recorded interviews using a semistructured interview guide. Data were analyzed by content analysis and...