title: Breast cancer research among African-American women: accurate racial categories?
abstract: This essay questions the appropriateness of racial categories in breast cancer research and recommends the discontinuation of "African-American" as a valid racial category in breast cancer research until better categories can be developed.
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA. figgslw@slu.edu
authors.forename: Larry W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Figgs
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000145:classification* / Q000266:history; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history; D044383:Black People / Q000145:classification; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000145:classification / Q000266:history; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014481:United States