Rare breast cancer more common among Hispanic women
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Women who have breast cancer but need to live on a budget can save money if they buy Canadian Tamoxifen to fight their illness. The tumors that can strike women may differ by where they spread, what treatments they respond to and how they grow. New research published by the Journal of the American College of Surgeons suggests that a rare and unpredictable form of breast tumor is more common among Hispanic women.
Phyllodes tumors make up as little as half a percent of cases of breast tumors, amounting to 2.1 cases for every one million women. This frequency goes up for Hispanics.
A team of researchers reviewed the medical records of 124 patients, including Caucasian, African American and Hispanic subjects. Cases of breast tumors were classified as benign, borderline or malignant. Higher proportions of the borderline and malignant cases were in Hispanic women, who tended to have larger and more aggressive tumors.
"Although we did not determine that these variances could be translated into a survival difference by race, we believe that our findings can improve the understanding of this disease," said lead study author Jose Pimiento, MD.
Further studies will need to include longer-follow up periods to find differences in recurrence or survival, the researchers said. Phyllodes tumors have a recurrence rate as high as 40 percent.
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