One in two Hispanic adults between 50 and 75 years of age are not getting tested as recommended, putting Hispanics at increased risk for advanced-stage colon cancer. Because of lower screening rates, colon cancer causes about 11 percent of cancer deaths among Hispanic males and nine percent of Hispanic females. See “Hispanics Are Less Likely […]
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Frequent and long-term use of lye-based hair straightening products, or relaxers, may increase the risk of breast cancer among Black women, compared with more moderate use. Boston University’s Black Women’s Health Study followed 59,000 self-identified African American women for over 25 years, sending questionnaires every two years on new diagnoses and factors that might influence
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Breast cancer mortality has decreased for all racial and ethnic groups over the past three decades, and Black and Latino women have seen greater improvements in survival, according to new study of invasive breast cancer in Florida over a 26-year period. Nonetheless, Black women continue to have substantially higher breast cancer mortality than white women.
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While breast cancer mortality rates have declined over the last few decades in Florida for all women, regardless of race or ethnicity, Florida Black women are still twice as likely to die from breast cancer compared to other ethnicities, according to an analysis of medical records from 1990 to 2015. Around 1990, breast cancer mortality
African-American women should have a breast cancer risk assessment at age 30 to determine if they should undergo breast cancer screening earlier than age 40, according to new breast cancer screening guidelines issued by the American College of Radiology and the Society of Breast Imaging. Both societies continue to recommend that breast cancer screening for
Black and White women diagnosed with breast cancer were just as likely to be carrying pathogenc variants in 12 genes linked to a risk of breast cancer in a study of nearly 30,000 women. “A potential reason that past studies showed that Black women who underwent commercial testing had more mutations than white women is
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Obesity in Black women increases their risk of recurrence of breast cancer or even dying, but not so in Americans of European descent, according to a new study from Indiana University. Researchers analyzed data from a chemotherapy clinical trial involving 5,000 women. When they looked at the type of breast cancer, obesity was associated with
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Black women with breast cancer are six times more likely than White women to have a distant spread of their cancer, regardless of their age or the stage of their cancer at diagnosis. This could be one reason why Black women are more likely to die f breast cancer than White women. Researchers at Mount
In a study of 23,123 women diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer between 2010 and 2015, Black women were 16 percent more likely than White women to die from the cancer. This disparity in mortality was partially explained by the finding that Black women were 31 percent less likely to receive surgery and 11 percent
Black military veterans diagnosed with stage 1 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) were 25 percent more likely than Whites to delay surgery more than 12 weeks after diagnosis. Veterans who waited more than 12 weeks were more likely to have a recurrence of their cancer and they died an average of 7.5 months earlier than
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