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Sorting Reality From What We Think We Know About Breast Cancer In Africa, Sulma I. Mohammed, Joe B. Harford
Sorting Reality From What We Think We Know About Breast Cancer In Africa, Sulma I. Mohammed, Joe B. Harford
Department of Comparative Pathobiology Faculty Publications
Much attention has been paid to the features of breast cancer in Africa and the parallels between breast cancer in indigenous Africans and in African American women, including a shift toward earlier onset; a tendency toward poorer outcomes; and an increased likelihood for the tumors to be negative for the estrogen receptor (ER), the progesterone receptor (PR), and/or the human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) [1,2]. One of the more aggressive forms of breast cancer is termed ‘‘triple negative,’’ i.e., ER2, PR2, HER22 [3]. Patients with triple negative breast cancer tend to be younger than patients with other forms of …