ChristianaCare research reveals drivers behind advanced breast cancer in hotspots

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Reduced screening rates and a higher prevalence of triple-negative breast cancer are driving elevated rates of advanced breast cancer in a geographic hotspot in Wilmington, Delaware, according to findings by researchers at ChristianaCare’s Cawley Center for Translational Cancer Research at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute.

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