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Asian and Hispanic women slower to make up mammography screening missed during pandemic

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Despite huge declines in the number of women getting mammography screening for breast cancer during the early months of the pandemic, the numbers rebounded strongly in the summer 2020, as healthcare facilities adapted new protocols to ensure staff and patient safety. anic lagged behind Black and White women in getting screened. While more than 90 […]

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Black Americans Don’t Get Screened or Treated for Lung Cancer at Same Rates as White Americans

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The American Lung Association finds that African Americans are 16% less likely to be diagnosed with lung cancer early, 19% less likely to receive surgical treatment, and 7% more likely to not receive any treatment than are white Americans. Latinos, Asian Americans, and Indigenous communities also face screening and treatment disparities. Why don’t people from

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Telemundo and Susan G. Komen partner to help Hispanic women take control of breast health

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Susan G. Komen, the world’s leading breast cancer organization, and Telemundo, the leading media network for Hispanics in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, announced a two-year partnership to reach Hispanic women with trustworthy information and resources to take control of their breast health. The partnership will use Telemundo’s multiple platforms to run Spanish-language public service

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New lung cancer screening guidelines will make eligible more minorities and women

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New guidelines for annual screening to detect lung cancer have lowered the age to start screening from 55 to 50 and the minimum smoking history from 30 pack-years to 20 pack-years. Adults aged 50 to 80 years, who have a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years

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One in 7 Caribbean-born women diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer had at least one inherited mutation that raised their risk

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In a study of Caribbean women, the Bahamas had the highest proportion of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (23%). Barbados was second in the percentage of hereditary cancer at almost 18%, followed by Trinidad & Tobago (12%), Dominica (8.8%), Haiti (6.7%), and Cayman Islands (6.3%, and Jamaica ranking as the lowest (4.9%). All in all,

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Is active surveillance a “PSA prison” for Black men?

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Should Black men ever be candidates for active surveillance? “If Black men have more aggressive cancer, then why would you treat them less aggressively? If they’re not like white men, why would you treat them like whites?” asks Willie Underwood (above), a urologist in Buffalo, New York, who opted for a radical prostatectomy to treat

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