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Blacks with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer less likely to receive chemotherapy

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Blacks with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer are less likely to receive chemotherapy for their disease compared to white and other racial groups, according to a new study. This type of lung cancer tends to rapidly progress, so current recommendations and practices favor starting treatment as soon as possible after a patient is diagnosed. Researchers […]

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Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation

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Triple-negative breast cancers affect people of all races. Breast cancers in African-American women are more likely to be triple-negative than those in white women. Among African-American women who develop breast cancer, there is an estimated 20 to 40 percent chance of the breast cancer being triple-negative. Researchers do not yet understand why premenopausal women and

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Funmi Olopade, MD

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“Chicago is full of rich Black women, middle class Black women who are police officers, teachers, who are not living in poverty. And so, the more I see the variety of Black women who are coming in with triple-negative breast cancer, the more I refuse to accept the fact that it was all poverty and

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Black military veterans treated with radiation for prostate cancer in VA health system less likely to die than white veterans

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Black military veterans with prostate cancer that had not spread who had equal access to radiation treatment were not more likely than whites to die from the cancer, according to a new study. In fact, their death rate was significantly lower than the white death rate. Researchers examined the medical records of 31,131 veterans diagnosed

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Barriers to Breast Cancer Treatment Between Hispanic Women and Their Providers

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Hispanic women and their healthcare providers agree that medical costs and insurance coverage are obstacles to breast cancer treatment, but the providers don’t recognize that emotional support and trust in the medical care are also important for Hispanic patients, according to a pilot study in Arizona. See abstract of scientific paper “Discordance in Perceptions of

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American Cancer Society

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It is estimated that 1 in 7 black men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime, compared to 1 in 8 white men. During 2011-2015, the average annual prostate cancer incidence rate was 179 cases per 100,000 black men, 76% higher than the rate in white men. Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause

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National Cancer Institute

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Prostate cancer occurs more often in African-American men than in white men. African-American men with prostate cancer are more likely to die from the disease than white men with prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men in the United States. In the United States, about one out of five men

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ZERO — The End of Prostate Cancer

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African American men are at an increased risk for developing prostate cancer over white men and other men of color. One in six African American men will develop prostate cancer in his lifetime. Overall, African American men are 1.8 times more likely to be diagnosed with—and 2.2 times more likely to die from—prostate cancer than

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American Cancer Society

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Alaska Natives have the highest colorectal cancer incidence (89 per 100,000) and mortality (40 per 100,000) rates in the US, double those in blacks (46 and 19, respectively). Colorectal cancer has been the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Alaska Natives since the early 1970s for reasons that are unknown, but may include a higher prevalence

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American Cancer Society

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Colorectal cancer disproportionately affects the Black community, where the rates are the highest of any racial/ethnic group in the US. African Americans are about 20% more likely to get colorectal cancer and about 40% more likely to die from it than most other groups. The reasons for the differences are complex, but they largely reflect

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