The incidence of high-risk uterine cancer is increasing in the United States, particularly among Black patients, according to a new study of nearly 800,000 women diagnosed with uterine cancer between 2001 and 2017. During that time, the incidence of uterine cancer increased regardless of race, but the rate was 3.6 times higher in Black patients […]
Black and Hispanic patients were often underrepresented in individual clinical trials cited in the standard recommendations for systemic therapy for endometrial cancer, according to a survey of clinical studies. Black patients made up 7.4% of the clinical trials, but the percentage of Black patients with endometrial cancer was 10% of total patients in the U.S.
Different activity in two molecular networks could help explain why triple negative breast cancers tend to be more aggressive in African American women compared with white American women, a new study from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center suggests. Dipali Sharma, PhD (above), and her colleagues compared the behavior of triple negative breast cancer cell lines
The incidence of metastatic prostate cancer, cancer that spread from the prostate, shot up in the United States after after an official recommendation not to routinely screen men with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, according to a new study. The thinking was that the harms of screening all men — leading to unnecessary prostatectomies and
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Neighborhoods that were subject to redlining in the 1930s tend to have higher levels of air pollution many decades later, a new study has found. Redlining was the discriminatory mortgage appraisal practice used by the federal government after the Great Depression, drawing lines around Black and immigrant areas that denoted them as risky sites for
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Older Black men were much less likely than White men to receive a prostate MRI during the years 2011 to 2015. The disparity was linked to major drivers of health care inequalities, such as living in an affluent vs poor or more racially segregated neighborhood. As a diagnostic tool, prostate MRIs improve the identification of
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Black patients wait longer for their diagnosis and treatment of colorectal cancer than White patients, according to a new study of US Black and white patients diagnosed between January 2019 and August 2020. Among patients who sought chemo or surgery, Black patients waited an average of eight days longer (67 days post-diagnosis) than White patients
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Colorectal cancer disparities between Black and White adults were eliminated among members of a Northern California health care organization after it instituted a regionwide, structured colorectal cancer screening program. In 2009, the colorectal cancer death rate (per 100,000) was 54.2 for Black members and 32.6 for white members. By 2019, death rates had fallen by
New lung cancer screening eligibility criteria can eliminate the racial disparities in who qualifies for screening. Researchers applied the new criteria to a past study of nearly a thousand lung cancer patients in the Detroit, Michigan, area. Under the old criteria, 52% of White patients vs 42% of Black patients would have been eligible for
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Black men younger than 56 years old were twice as likely as White men to experience more than 6 months delay in treatment of their localized prostate cancer. That’s the finding of an analysis of nearly 90,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer from 2004 to 2017, in a study led by Bhav Jain of the
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