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Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) is a subtype of breast cancer that is disproportionately prevalent among Black women. In the US, Black women face a three-fold higher risk of being diagnosed with TNBC and are less likely to receive guideline-concordant treatment for TNBC. As a result, Black women are more likely to die from the disease than White women.
To better understand the experience of being diagnosed with TNBC as a Black woman, SHARE teamed up with Tisha Felder PhD., MSW, who served as the Principal Investigator, and her colleague Lucy Ingram MPH, PhD., to conduct a qualitative research study. Twenty Black women diagnosed with early or metastatic breast cancer were interviewed and text analysis software was utilized with an inductive coding approach to develop a codebook. Through a Black Feminist lens, codes were analyzed and themes were interpreted across the interviews.
