Among women in Hawaii diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a non-invasive or pre-invasive breast cancer, Native Hawaiian, Filipino, and Japanese women were significantly more likely to develop an invasive second breast cancer compared with White and Chinese women. The number of DCIS diagnoses in recent years has increased due in part to improvements […]
If Black women begin mammography screening every other year starting at age 40, breast cancer deaths could be reduced by 57 percent compared to starting screening 10 years later according to a new analysis. It’s the first to use modeling to elucidate modern breast cancer screening strategies that best achieve equity in screening outcomes and
Would starting mammography at 40 reduce disparity in Black women’s deaths? Read More »
Patients with early-onset colorectal cancer (under age 50) are more likely to be Black or Hispanic and to be diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, according to a study of more than one milllion men and women diagnosed between 2004 and 2015. Black patients with early-onset colorectal cancer had a shorter survival time compared to White
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In a study of nearly 1,600 women in the U.S. military, Black women diagnosed with endometrial cancer were 64 percent more likely to die from the cancer than White women, even though both groups received equal quality of health care. This disparity was confined to patients with low-risk cancer, defined as stage I/II disease or
New lung cancer screening guidelines will likely increase eligibility by nearly 54 percent. increasing the overall proportion of women, racial and ethnic minority groups, and individuals with lower socioeconomic status, according to new research by Kaiser Permanente. The new guidelines are also projected to lead to an estimated 30 percent increase in lung cancer diagnoses
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Although Black lung cancer patients are more likely to die from their disease than white patients, they have better outcomes than whites when treated with immunotherapies that are now considered the best standard of care. This suggests that barriers to care are a key driver behind the racial disparities in lung cancer survival rates. A
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Many factors play a role in the troubling disparity in endometrial cancer, including poorer access to health care in some communities, a lack of awareness among some providers, and research efforts that often have not included enough people who are Black, Hispanic, and Asian, says Carol Brown, a gynecologic oncology surgeon and the Chief Health
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Non-White women were only 30 percent as likely as White women to receive same-day mammogram readings and then diagnostic imaging to follow up abnormal mammogram results at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2019. The need to come back for a second visit for the diagnostic imaging contributes to disparities in the time it takes for a
Non-White patients much less likely to get same-day mammogram readings at major hospital Read More »
Cervical cancer may be virtually eliminated in the United States by 2030 in communities with low poverty rates, but not until 2044 in communities with high poverty rates, according to a new statistical model. The difference may result in nearly 22,000 extra cases of cervical cancer in high-poverty communities. The model accounted for the risk
Cervical cancer may be eliminated 14 years earlier in wealthier US communities Read More »
Black women were 22 percent more likely than White women to suffer “rapid relapse” of Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) in a study of more than 17,000 women diagnosed with TNBC between 2010 and 2014 led by researcher Samilia Obeng-Gyasi, MD (above). About a tenth of women with Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) have what’s
Black women more likely than White women to suffer rapid relapse of TNBC Read More »
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