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Blacks and Hispanics more likely to have stage 4 early-onset colorectal cancer

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Patients with early-onset colorectal cancer (under age 50) are more likely to be Black or Hispanic and to be diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, according to a study of more than one milllion men and women diagnosed between 2004 and 2015. Black patients with early-onset colorectal cancer had a shorter survival time compared to White […]

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New lung cancer screening guidelines increase eligibility for minorities and women

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New lung cancer screening guidelines will likely increase eligibility by nearly 54 percent. increasing the overall proportion of women, racial and ethnic minority groups, and individuals with lower socioeconomic status, according to new research by Kaiser Permanente. The new guidelines are also projected to lead to an estimated 30 percent increase in lung cancer diagnoses

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Racial Disparities in Lung Cancer Outcomes Erased by Equal Access to Top Treatments

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Although Black lung cancer patients are more likely to die from their disease than white patients, they have better outcomes than whites when treated with immunotherapies that are now considered the best standard of care. This suggests that barriers to care are a key driver behind the racial disparities in lung cancer survival rates. A

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Why Black Women Are Twice as Likely to Die of Endometrial Cancer

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Many factors play a role in the troubling disparity in endometrial cancer, including poorer access to health care in some communities, a lack of awareness among some providers, and research efforts that often have not included enough people who are Black, Hispanic, and Asian, says Carol Brown, a gynecologic oncology surgeon and the Chief Health

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Non-White patients much less likely to get same-day mammogram readings at major hospital

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Non-White women were only 30 percent as likely as White women to receive same-day mammogram readings and then diagnostic imaging to follow up abnormal mammogram results at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2019. The need to come back for a second visit for the diagnostic imaging contributes to disparities in the time it takes for a

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Cervical cancer may be eliminated 14 years earlier in wealthier US communities

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Cervical cancer may be virtually eliminated in the United States by 2030 in communities with low poverty rates, but not until 2044 in communities with high poverty rates, according to a new statistical model. The difference may result in nearly 22,000 extra cases of cervical cancer in high-poverty communities. The model accounted for the risk

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Black women more likely than White women to suffer rapid relapse of TNBC

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Black women were 22 percent more likely than White women to suffer “rapid relapse” of Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) in a study of more than 17,000 women diagnosed with TNBC between 2010 and 2014 led by researcher Samilia Obeng-Gyasi, MD (above). About a tenth of women with Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) have what’s

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Increased PSA screening linked to 25% fewer deaths from prostate cancer in Black men

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In a study that included more than 4,700 African American men diagnosed with prostate cancer, those who had an average of three PSA screening tests before their diagnosis were less likely have had the cancer spread and were less like to die of the cancer. “These results would suggest that increased PSA screening may improve

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Medicaid expansion led to lower rate of breast reconstruction

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Expanded Medicaid coverage in New Jersey, New York and Washington between 2012 and 2015 led to lower rates of breast reconstruction among Black, Hispanic, and Asian women compared with women in Florida, North Carolina and Wisconsin which didn’t expand Medicaid coverage. It did not change for White women. The findings point to factors other than

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