Table 5. Prevalence of the Triple-Negative Receptor Breast Cancer Subtype by Study and Ethnicity.
| STUDY (REFERENCE) | STUDY-DATASET | SAMPLE SIZE |
ETHNICITY
|
P-VALUE | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethnicity = (N) | NHW | AA | Hisp | |||||||
| Millikan, 2008 [43] | Carolina Breast Cancer Study (CBCS) | NHW=843 | 21(%) | 35(%) | - | n/a | ||||
| AA=581 | ||||||||||
| Stead, 2009 [7] | Boston University Medical Center | NHW=148 | 13(%) | 30(%) | 12(%) | 0.0002* | ||||
| AA=177 | ||||||||||
| Hisp=43 | ||||||||||
| Lund, 2010 [8] | Atlanta Surveillance, Epidemiology,& End Results (SEER) Registry | NHW=96 | 10(%) | 23(%) | - | <0.001* | ||||
| AA=814 | ||||||||||
| Komenaka, 2010 [44] | Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana | NHW=315 | 19(%) | 32(%) | - | 0.05* | ||||
| AA=315 | ||||||||||
| Parise, 2010 [45] | California Cancer Registry (CCR) | NHW=48863 | 12(%) | 28(%) | 18(%) | n/a | ||||
| AA=3743 | ||||||||||
| Hisp=9588 | ||||||||||
| Stark, 2011[46] | Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan | NHW=1008 | 16(%) | 26(%) | - | n/a | ||||
| AA=581 | ||||||||||
| Hines, 2010 [3] | 4-Corners Breast Cancer Study, Colorado | NHW=119 | 15(%) | - | 17(%) | n.s. | ||||
| Hisp=69 | ||||||||||
| Lara-Medina, 2011[47] | National Cancer Institute | Hisp=2065 | - | - | 23(%) | -- | ||||
| Vadgama, 2013 | Martin Luther King Ambulatory Care Center (MACC) | AA=166 | - | 35(%) | 28(%) | n.s | ||||
| Hisp=152 | ||||||||||
Abbreviations: NHW - Non-Hispanic-White/Caucasian, AA- African-American, Hisp-Hispanic/Latina, n.s. – Not Significant (P>0.05), n/a-information is not available *P-value<0.05 is significant.