Palliative care in breast cancer treatment may be less likely for racial/ethnic minority patients than white patients

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Palliative care in breast cancer treatment may be less likely for racial/ethnic minority patients than white patients
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Despite a steady increase in palliative care utilization from 2004 to 2020, non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic, and Asian or Pacific Islander patients with metastatic breast cancer were less likely to receive palliative care than non-Hispanic white patients, according to results presented at the 16th AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, held September 29–October 2, 2023.

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