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Table 3.

Frequency of Reported Triple-Negative Breast Cancer in AA and WA Women

Study	Dataset/Sample Size	Frequency of TN or Basal Subtype Breast Cancer
Study	Dataset/Sample Size	AAs	WAs	P
Carey 2006⁸	97 premenopausal AA vs 164 premenopausal non-AA women from Carolina Breast Cancer Study	39% (basalAU: Please note asterisks removed from Table 3; no corresponding footnote. subtype)	16% (basal subtype)	<.001
Morris 2007²⁰	2230 Thomas Jefferson University Hospital pts and 197,274 SEER pts	20.8% (TN)	10.4% (TN)	<.0001
Stark 2008¹³	Henry Ford Health System, 441 AA, 822 WA	24.4% (TN)	14.4% (TN)	<.0001
Lund 2008²¹	167 AA and 23 WA cases from Grady Hospital; urban Atlanta, GA	29.3% (TN)	13.0% (TN)	.05
Moran 2008²²	99 AA and 968 WA breast conservation pts from Yale University School of Medicine	21% (TN)	8% (TN)	<.0001
Lund 2009²³	Population-based Atlanta GA cohort of 116 AA, 360 WA cases	46.6% (TN)	21.8% (TN)	<.001

AA indicates African American; WA, white American; TN, triple negative; pts, patients; SEER, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results.