“African American women have the highest mortality rate for cervical cancer because we are not getting screened, we are not going to the doctors, we are not taking our health into our own hands,” say Latasha Bostick and Darlene Cook, cervical cancer survivors. “They don’t have a vaccine for breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer. […]
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State by state breast cancer death rates Breast cancer death rates in most states are highest for Black women and lowest for Hispanics, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Source: “Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care; A Scorecard of State Performance” from The Commonwealth Fund (November 18, 2021) More about breast
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Expansion of Medicaid eliminated the disparity in survival between racial and ethnic minority women and White women after diagnosis of de novo stage IV breast cancer. In 19 states, two-year survival was 64 percent for White women and 56 percent for minority women before Medicaid expansion and about 71-72 percent for all women after Medicaid
Significantly more cases of early non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were caught following the introduction of low-dose CT lung cancer screening recommendations nearly a decade ago. But non-White patients did not share equally in the benefits. Researchers analyzed the medical records of more than 760,000 patients between 2010 and 2018. “In 2018, for the first
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Breast cancer screening dropped by more than 50 percent among women of color between 2019 and 2020, according to a study of more than 21,000 women and a variety of screening facilities. The percentage of women of color getting mammograms was 16.8% in 2019 vs 12.2% in 2020. During the COVID-19 peak, mammography screening volumes
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Black men on androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer were 20 percent less likely than White men to undergo bone density testing, which is significantly associated with a decreased risk for major osteoporotic fractures. Androgen deprivation therapy can affect bone health, resulting in decreased bone mineral density and fractures. In a group of nearly 55,000
Among current or former smokers, Blacks were 53 percent less likely than equally healthy Whites to undergo low-dose CT lung cancer screening, in a study of more than 14,000 U.S. patients aged 55 to 79. Unfortunately, this disparity occurs “despite the potential for greater benefit of screening this population,” said researcher Alison Rustagi of the
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Black people with multiple myeloma live longer than white patients with similar disease symptoms when both receive the same new and updated medical treatments, according to an analysis of more than 24,000 patients treated between 1999 and 2017. However, Black myeloma patients were less likely to receive the latest treatments than White patients, even if they had
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Genomic findings may help explain racial disparities in outcomes among patients with breast cancer, according to a study of 6652 patients with breast cancer who were treated from 2014 to 2020 and underwent extensive genetic testing. The study showed that Black patients with metastatic breast cancer were less likely than their White counterparts to have
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Hispanic women diagnosed with cervical cancer were only one-third as likely as White women to receive treatment that helped preserve their fertility in a study of women in California. Researchers analyzed medical records of more than 44,000 women diagnosed with stage IA or stage IB cervical cancer between 2004 and 2015 to see which women
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