A University of Arizona Health Sciences-led study uncovered disparities in breast cancer treatments that may lead to poorer health outcomes in Indigenous women, who currently have the worst breast cancer survival outcomes of any racial group in the U.S.

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Native and Indigenous women had a higher percentage of mastectomy and a lower percentage of lumpectomy compared with white women.

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A study led by researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences shows disparities in breast cancer treatments for Indigenous women. The paper was recently published in Annals of Surgical Oncology and found American Indian and Alaska Native women with early-stage cancer were more likely to receive a mastectomy compared to white women, and less likely to receive a lumpectomy than white women.

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