Open AccessRacial Differences in Population Attributable Risk for Epithelial Ovarian Cancer in the OCWAA Consortium
Author(s) -
Lauren C. Peres,
Traci N. Bethea,
Tareq F. Camacho,
Elisa V. Bandera,
Alicia Beeghly–Fadiel,
Deanna Chyn,
Holly R. Harris,
Charlotte E. Joslin,
Patricia G. Moorman,
Evan R. Myers,
Heather M. OchsBalcom,
Will Rosenow,
Veronica Wendy Setiawan,
Anna H. Wu,
Lynn Rosenberg,
Joellen M. Schildkraut
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of the national cancer institute
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.797
H-Index - 356
eISSN - 1460-2105
pISSN - 0027-8874
DOI - 10.1093/jnci/djaa188
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , ovarian cancer , incidence (geometry) , body mass index , logistic regression , gynecology , aspirin , population , demography , epithelial ovarian cancer , cancer , odds ratio , oncology , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics
The causes of racial disparities in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) incidence remain unclear. Differences in the prevalence of ovarian cancer risk factors may explain disparities in EOC incidence among African American (AA) and White women.