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Scarlett Lin Gomez

Researcher at University of California, San Francisco

Publications -  334
Citations -  16250

Scarlett Lin Gomez is an academic researcher from University of California, San Francisco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cancer registry. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 272 publications receiving 12255 citations. Previous affiliations of Scarlett Lin Gomez include Cancer Prevention Institute of California & Prevention Institute.

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Global surveillance of trends in cancer survival 2000-14 (CONCORD-3): analysis of individual records for 37 513 025 patients diagnosed with one of 18 cancers from 322 population-based registries in 71 countries.

Claudia Allemani, +594 more
- 17 Mar 2018 - 
TL;DR: For most cancers, 5-year net survival remains among the highest in the world in the USA and Canada, in Australia and New Zealand, and in Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, while for many cancers, Denmark is closing the survival gap with the other Nordic countries.
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The importance of race and ethnic background in biomedical research and clinical practice.

TL;DR: With the completion of a rough draft of the human genome, some have suggested that racial classification may not be useful for biomedical studies, since it reflects “a fairly small number of genes that describe appearance” and “there is no basis in the genetic code for race.
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Early Discontinuation and Nonadherence to Adjuvant Hormonal Therapy in a Cohort of 8,769 Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients

TL;DR: Younger or older age, lumpectomy (v mastectomy), and comorbidities were associated with earlier discontinuation, while Asian race, being married, earlier year at diagnosis, receipt of chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and longer prescription refill interval wereassociated with completion of 4.5 years of therapy.