Breast cancer incidence rates have increased across all races and ethnicities since the 1980s, primarily due to increased detection by mammography. But while the incidence among white women have generally stabilized in the past few years, the incidence among African American women continuesto rise. Despite having similar incidence rates to white women, African America nwomen […]
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The African American/Black, Hispanic/Latina, and other communities within the U.S. continue to be disproportionately burdened by high incidence (new cases) and mortality rates of breast cancer. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women in the U.S. White women have the highest breast cancer incidence overall, while Asian-American
COVID-19 transmission and mortality disproportionately affects Black, Hispanic, and Native American populations, says gastrotenterologist Sophhie Balzora (above). Colorectal cancer, too, is wrought with disparities in screening, incidence, and mortality rates among these very same populations. As we envision our nation slowly clawing our way out of the deepest threats of the pandemic, we must come back
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Asian American and Pacific Islander men are the most likely, and whites the least likely, to survive five years after a diagnosis of distant (advanced) prostate cancer, according to new data from 2011-2016 released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). After the diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer, 42% of Asian Americans and
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Women with inflammatory breast cancer — a rare, highly aggressive form of the disease — are living about twice as long after diagnosis than their counterparts in the mid-to-late 1970s, according to University of Michigan research led by Hannah Abraham (above). But despite overall improvements in survival, the analysis showed an ongoing disparity in life
Women with inflammatory breast cancer — a rare, highly aggressive form of the disease — are living about twice as long after diagnosis than their counterparts in the mid-to-late 1970s. But white patients today still tend to live about two years longer than their Black peers, according to a new study from the University of
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Black patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer in California were less likely to receive chemotherapy and had a 17 percent higher chance of death compared with White patients. “These troubling statistics are the result of a disparity in access to health care,” said Mustafa Raoof, MD, a surgical oncologist at City of Hope in Southern California.
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Not only is there a higher prevalence of triple-negative breast cancer in African American women, they tend to be diagnosed at a more advanced stage, says Coral Omene, MD, PhD (above), medical oncologist at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey. Compared with other subtypes of breast cancer, they have different risk factors for this disease.
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Spanish-only speakers appear to have a 27-percent less likelihood of having a screening mammogram than English speakers, according to a new study of women ages 40 and above living in the United States. That translates to an estimated 450,000 women nationwide who are eligible for – but have never had – a screening mammogram. The
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U.S. News data analysts took a closer look at disparities in colon cancer and found stark differences in who was diagnosed, at what stage, and how they fared. Black, Hispanic and low socioeconomic status patients were less likely to be screened, more likely to be admitted for an emergent procedure, and had an increased risk
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