Among older men with prostate cancer, those living in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods were 38 percent more likely to die from their cancer during the years 2008 to 2017 than men living in the least disadvantaged neighborhoods. Men in the poorer neighborhoods were more likely to be Black. Cary Gross (above) of Yale University and […]
“I look at the tumor micro environment of black women with breast cancer,” says Yara Abdou, MD, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (above). “We have enough evidence to show that Black women with breast cancer have a different tumor biology, therefore they might have different biomarkers of response and a different
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Black women diagnosed with Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) were more frequently unable to receive or declined genetic testing for BRCA mutations compared with White women, according to a survey of 577 patients aged 60 or younger in four hospital systems from 2015 through 2020. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network now recommends this testing for
Race did not significantly predict response to treatment outcomes among women with high-risk breast cancer in a new study of nearly 1,000 women. Beverly Kyalwazi, MD, and her colleagues found that tumor biology more strongly predicted a positive outcome from treatment. Black women who received appropriate therapies based on their tumor profiles saw the same
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Black and Hispanic women experience more than three times the risk compared to White women of developing swelling in the arms and legs called lymphedema after breast cancer treatment, according to new research. The study followed 276 women with breast cancer who received a unilateral axillary lymph node dissection, which removes lymph nodes located above,
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Cervical cancer screening results among women in Mississippi suggests that young Black women have a higher prevalence of infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) at younger ages than do White women. Researchers studied 6,871 women who underwent cervical cancer screening in Mississippi during 2018. The prevalence of HPV infection was 50.2% among Black participants aged 21
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African American women are less likely to be pictured in social media posts showing the outcomes of breast reconstruction, according to an analysis of 2,580 photos on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other social media. While African American women accounted for about 13 percent of patients undergoing post-mastectomy breast reconstruction in 2018, less than 7 percent
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Black men in California were much more likely to have high PSA scores of 20 or more at the time of their diagnosis than White men in the state. Researchers led by David J. Press (above) reviewed the cases of more than 170,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer in California. Black men who came from
Black males are 32 percent more likely than Whites to delay treatment for prostate cancer in Tennessee. During the years 2005 to 2015 in Tennessee, Blacks as well as divorced or separated men who were diagnosed with prostate cancer were more likely than White or single men to postpone treatment for at least 3 months.
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Women living in New York City neighborhoods with the lowest socioeconomic status (SES) had a 73 percent greater chance of being diagnosed with cervical cancer than women living in neighborhoods with the highest SES, according to research. Stephanie Cham, MD (above) of the Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center and colleagues analyzed data collected from New York
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