NBA Legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar revealed that he has had a prostate cancer diagnosis, along with leukemia and heart surgery in an op-ed about health challenges facing Black people. In the article for the online health magazine WebMd, Abdul-Jabbar wrote about the increased risks carried by Blacks for heart disease, diabetes and cancer. He said that […]
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Black women diagnosed with early breast cancer were about twice as like as white women to have obesity or high blood pressure and about four times as likely to have diabetes, according to a chart review of 548 women at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Despite the differences in obesity and underlying
Black women experience less-favorable treatment outcomes than do white women – likely related to treatment delays. But those outcomes may also be influenced by another factor, social isolation, said Dr. Kemi Doll (above), an oncologist-gynecologist who specializes in endometrial cancer at the University of Washington. “Black women are uniquely at risk for social isolation due
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Among patients with lung cancer from Latin America, Native American ancestry was associated with increased mutations in the EGFR gene. EGFR is the gene that produces a protein called epidermal growth factor receptor which helps cells grow and divide. Many lung cancers are now treatable with targeted therapy or immunotherapy, so it is very important
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Black women are less likely to be offered hypofractionated radiation therapy, an increasingly popular breast cancer treatment, than White women. Hypofractionated radiation therapy, also called hypofractionation, aims to destroy cancer cells in the breast, but with larger radiation doses in fewer overall sessions. Whereas conventional radiation typically requires 25 to 30 sessions, hypofractionation requires 15
Black women with lupus have a higher risk of cervical cancer, and are more likely die from the disease than women of other races. ““Women with SLE have a weak immune system, which makes them more susceptible to infection and makes it more difficult to get rid of any HPV infection of the cervix,” says
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Medical mistrust is one reason why African American patients are more likely to have regrets about their choice of treatment for prostate cancer, suggests a study of 1,112 men treated for localized prostate cancer between 2010 and 2016. About 40 percent of the patients eere African American. Because their cancer hasn’t spread beyond the prostate
Nearly half of nonsmoking Black persons had evidence in their blood of exposure to secondhand smoke, compared with less than a quarter of nonsmoking Whites and one-sixth of Mexican Americans. That is the finding of a nationally-representative health survey of Americans in 2017-2018. Secondhand smoke is one of the causes of sudden infant death syndrome,
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Eligible Black lung cancer patients are likely not receiving biomarker testing and tailored treatment as often as their white counterparts. With the discovery of numerous targeted therapies, some lung cancer patients may be eligible to take a pill that “targets” their specific type of lung cancer. Testing to see if a patient is eligible for
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Women who experience food or housing insecurities are more likely to take longer between breast imaging and follow-up consultations, putting them at greater risk for undiagnosed breast cancer. They are more likely to miss their follow-up appointments, according to research at the Boston University School of Medicine. Researchers examined medical records from two groups of
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