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expectancy between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women in Australia, and is the second highest cause of death in where breast cancer survival has been reported to be lower for Aboriginal women than for non-Aboriginal women Supramaniam et al. BMC Cancer 2014, 14:163 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/14/163spread of disease at diagnosis, multiple comorbidities, live1Cancer Research Division, Cancer Council NSW, Sydney, Australia Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleAboriginal people [1,2]. Breast cancer is the most com-monly diagnosed cancer in Aboriginal women, accounting for 25 % of all incident cases in women [3]. It is generally reported that while breast cancer incidence in Aboriginal women is lower than in non-Aboriginal women [4-8], their population mortality rate from the dis-ease is either lower [9] or similar, suggesting that the [4]. The causes of breast cancer survival disparities for Aboriginal people are complex and have not been full