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So there are some differences, in terms of incidence and age of onset in African American patients. We know that Black patients tend to have triple-negative breast cancer often at earlier ages. There's been a lot of research done to try to understand why. Genetics has so far not been able to explain that, and assessing environmental factors can be challenging, but that's a possibility. I think there's still a lot of work going on to try to understand why are there differences between race and ethnicity across BR- triple negative breast cancer patients.
In this video, Ilana Schlam, MD, MPH, breast medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses differences in triple-negative breast cancer incidence and age at onset among Black patients.
“There’s still a lot of work going on to try to understand why there are differences between race and ethnicity across triple-negative breast cancer patients,” she said.
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