The survival rate for cervical cancer and uterine (endometrial) have been stagnant for years, even as the number of deaths from cancer in the United States dropped overall. But while treatments have improved dramatically for many forms of cancer, these particular cancers are left behind for a number of reasons, including gaps in treatment and […]
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“What really, really hurts my heart is to see young women dying from this disease,” says Ana M. Rodriguez, an obstetrician and gynecologist who practices at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. “It is a preventable disease.” Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable of all cancers because it emerges slowly, offering
While the CDC finds that non-Hispanic white and black women had similar incidences of uterine cancer, black women were more likely to be diagnosed with uterine sarcoma, the most aggressive form of uterine cancer, than women of other races, and also more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage than women of other races.
Black and Latina women are nearly three times more likely to die of cervical cancer than white women in Chicago, according to a recent report by local nonprofit Equal Hope, formerly the Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force, which also found drastic variations among neighborhoods. “Realistically, nobody should be dying of cervical cancer if you
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Black women have a 90 percent higher mortality rate from endometrial cancer than all other groups of women with this cancer. It’s four times more common than cervical cancer and twice as common as ovarian cancer, “but if endometrial cancer is caught early, it is almost always curable,” says Kemi Doll, a University of Washington
Asian American women who immigrated to the United States had a significantly higher risk for breast cancer than their U.S.-born counterparts, according to the results of a new study led by a researcher from the University of California, Riverside. Otherwise, breast cancer rates overall in the United States have stabilized since the 2000s. Brittany N.
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Dr. Kemi Doll (above), a gynecologic oncologist at the University of Washington, has spent the past seven years researching gynecological cancers and investigating the cause of the disparity in endometrial cancer. She believes that, as with racial discrepancies in other medical conditions, the difference in the endometrial cancer death rate is the result of how
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“This is actually a larger difference in terms of a racial disparity with endometrial cancer than we see in breast cancer and colon cancer, so I really wanted there to be a visible community of black women who have been diagnosed with this disease to show they can survive and thrive,” said Kemi Doll, founder
When I was 25, I was living in Washington, DC, working as a television producer and loving life. I felt great and healthy, so I put off getting my routine Pap test for a few years. I thought it could wait. When I finally did go for a check-up, I got the shock of my
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More than 40 percent of African American women diagnosed with breast cancer did not receive the genetic testing they were eligible for, in a study of 250 patients in the St. Louis area between 2016 and 2018. Of those who were eligible, 9 percent turned out to be carrying potentially harmful gene mutations in later
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