Although African Americans start smoking cigarettes at an older age and usually smoke fewer cigarettes, they are more likely to die from smoking-related diseases than whites. Although the prevalence of cigarette smoking among African American and White adults is similar, African Americans smoke fewer cigarettes per day. On average, African Americans initiate smoking at a […]
There are very strong reasons why we do need to look at tumor biology and genetics when we are trying to comprehensively understand the explanation for breast cancer disparities,” says Lisa Newman. Newman is a surgical oncologist who oversees the breast surgery program for the Weill Cornell Medicine-New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City
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Active surveillance is a safe option for Black men with low-risk prostate cancer, according to a new study of 8,726 men with low-risk prostate cancer who were followed for about 8 years. Since this cancer is known to often progress slowly, men with low-risk prostate cancer can sometimes forgo treatment and engage in “active surveillance.”
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Research on hereditary breast cancer has not included as many women with African ancestry as women with European ancestry. For that reason, less is known about the risk for women from these ethnic groups to have a genetic mutation that increases the risk of breast cancer. A study by one of the larger genetics laboratories
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Less access to medical care is a significant issue for African American women diagnosed with breast cancer, says Worta McCaskill-Stevens (above). They come into treatment very late in the disease, and their rate of aggressive, triple-negative breast cancer—the subtype with the poorest prognosis—is higher than in other racial groups. See “Improving outcomes for African American
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Al Roker, co-host and weatherman of the morning Today show on NBC, revealed that he will be undergoing surgery to treat prostate cancer. As he told his fellow co-hosts: “It’s a good news-bad news kind of thing. Good news is we caught it early. Not great news is that it’s a little aggressive, so I’m going
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Black women in North Carolina with breast cancer encounter longer waits for treatment initiation and a longer duration of treatment compared with white women, according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Delay of treatment was defined as more than 60 days after diagnosis. Black women at both high
Differential access to healthcare is an important contributor to breast cancer disparities in the United States. Access to care varies from neighborhood to neighborhood, in part due to historical patterns of segregation and structural racism. It also varies from city to city because of systems-based factors such as state policy decisions, differential Medicaid coverage and
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Black women have twice the risk of being diagnosed with uterine clear cell carcinoma compared with other races, according to a new study of nearly half a million U.S. women diagnosed with uterine cancer from 2004 to 2016. Uterine clear-cell carcinoma (above) is a rare form of endometrial cancer that’s aggressive, has a high recurrence
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Vietnamese American women are diagnosed with uterine clear cell carcinoma at an average age of 56 years, compared with average ages of 64 to 72 in other Asian Americans, according to a new study of nearly half a million U.S. women diagnosed with uterine cancer from 2004 to 2016. Uterine clear-cell carcinoma is a rare
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