Are ethnic disparities in adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer caused by excess toxicity in black patients?
Our findings suggest that hematologic tolerability of adjuvant chemotherapy is similar in black and white patients. Strategies aimed at improving psychosocial barriers to adjuvant therapy and at reducing surgical complications in black patients may improve overall breast cancer outcomes in this group.
Personality facets hostility and vulnerability to stress did not modify the relation between road traffic noise exposure and somatic symptom reporting, or confound relations between noise annoyance and symptoms.