Socioeconomic Status Impacts Tumor Biology, Treatment, and Outcomes in Over 200,000 Patients with Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast: a National Cancer Database Analysis
Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is known to be a hormone receptor positive and HER2 receptor negative breast cancer. Our analysis showed that the characteristics of early stage (I-III) ILC can vary by socioeconomic status (SES, which we measured using education and income). In this cohort of over 200,000 patients with ILC in the National Cancer Database, we found that low SES was associated with fewer hormone positive and higher-grade tumors.
