Open AccessEndometrial cancer outcomes among non-Hispanic US born and Caribbean born black women
Author(s) -
Matthew Schlumbrecht,
Marilyn Huang,
Judith Hurley,
Sophia George
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of gynecological cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.901
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1525-1438
pISSN - 1048-891X
DOI - 10.1136/ijgc-2019-000347
Subject(s) - medicine , endometrial cancer , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , cancer , demography , stage (stratigraphy) , gynecology , survival analysis , obstetrics , confidence interval , sociology , paleontology , biology
Data on endometrial cancer outcomes among immigrant women in the USA are lacking. The objective was to determine the effect of Caribbean nativity on outcomes in black women with endometrial cancer compared with women born in the USA, with attention paid to the effects of tumor grade, sociodemographic factors, and treatment approaches.