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Midlife PSA test can predict prostate cancer risk in African-American men

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A single PSA measurement taken during middle age can strongly predict the later diagnosis of aggressive prostate cancer in African-American men up to 12 years later. While most prostate cancers are dormant and not life-threatening, it’s the aggressive ones that are life-threatening. PSA, which stands for prostate-specific antigen, is measured in a blood test. Researchers […]

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African American women twice as likely as white women to be diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer

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Cervical cancer used to be a major cause of death in women during their childbearing years. But the development of the Pap smear in the 1950s and a vaccine in the 2000s against the virus that causes the cancer have greatly reduced the toll this cancer causes. But 4,000 American women still die each year

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Preventing Cervical Cancer in Black Women in America

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An estimated 700 African American women still die of cervical cancer each year. The three main reasons are: later stage at diagnosis, less aggressive treatment, and more barriers to care once diagnosed. Lack of knowledge about cervical cancer may be the largest barrier to screening and treatment of cervical cancer in African American women. One

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Helping Hispanics Prevent Cervical Cancer: Answers to 6 Questions

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Abraham Aragones, a doctor and public health researcher who studies the issues surrounding HPV vaccination and cancer, especially among Hispanics, explains why the human papillomavirus (HPV) causes more cancer among Hispanics than any other group, and how getting more people vaccinated against the virus can improve public health. See “Helping Hispanics Prevent HPV-Related Cancers: 6

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Black women in Alabama dying of cervical cancer at alarming rate

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Black women in Alabama are dying of cervical cancer at more than twice the national average, a trend that appears to be increasing despite the disease being preventable and curable if detected early, a Human Rights Watch report shows. The group blames the state’s restrictive health insurance policies, lack of physicians, poverty and structural racism

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Most research on multiple myeloma based on people of European descent even though Black men are 3 times more likely to have disease

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Although African-American men are three times more likely to be diagnosed with multiple myeloma, most scientific research on the disease has been based on people of European descent, according to a study led by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. That is problematic considering that African-Americans — the most at-risk population for

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Women diagnosed with IBC more likely to be Black, poor, with more underlying conditions

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A higher percentage of Black breast cancer patients had IBC compared to White breast cancer patients, in a study of 7,624 cases of invasive cancer in seven states. IBC patients were also more likely to be from areas of higher poverty and those with metastatic disease were more likely to be Black and from poorer,

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Should Black men have first PSA test 3 to 9 years earlier than White men?

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Black men are more likely to develop fast-growing prostate cancers and more likely to have the cancer spread by the time the disease would have been detected without screening than in other men. That’s the result of an analysis of government cancer data by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. That

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