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Black men born around 1977-1982 have higher rates of lung cancer

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Black men born between 1977 and 1982 have higher rates of lung cancer than white men born during this time, likely because the tobacco industry targeted minority youth with advertising in the 1990s. Smoking rose steeply among Black adolescents between 1991 and 1977, which coincided with R.J. Reynold’s tobacco company’s advertisement campaign targeting African Americans. […]

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Disparity in lung cancer reversed or eliminated in young adults

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A trend of higher lung cancer incidence rates in young Black people versus young white people in the United States has flipped, with the Black/white gap disappearing in men and reversing in women, according to a new study. The changing trends coincide with steeper declines in smoking in Black Americans. Historically, lung cancer incidence rates

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Will new cervical cancer screening guidelines widen the racial disparity gap even further?

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New screening guidelines released by the American Cancer Society fail to preserve access to the most accurate and effective cervical cancer screening options and threatens to put lives at risk, according to the Black Women’s Health Imperative. The new guidelines from the ACS recommend against continued routine use of the Pap test, instead suggesting that

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American Cancer Society recommends new screening guidelines for cervical cancer

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Pap testing, the standard for cervical cancer prevention for decades, will become obsolete under a new guideline from the American Cancer Society (ACS), replaced by testing for human papillomaviruses (HPV), the cause of cervical cancer. This shift follows declining cervical cancer risk in young women resulting from HPV vaccination over the past 15 years. The

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Medicaid-Expanded States Diagnose Breast Cancer at Earlier Stage

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Patients in states with expanded Medicaid coverage through the Affordable Care Act saw a higher percentage of women with breast cancer diagnosed at an earlier stage of disease. Expansion of Medicaid was associated with both a reduced number of uninsured patients and a decrease in the incidence of advanced-stage breast cancer. A particular benefit was

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Black women more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive type 2 endometrial cancer

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In‌ a study of nearly 28,000 cases of endometrial cancer diagnosed in Florida during 2005 to 2016, Black women were far more likely to be diagnosed with type 2 endometrial cancer than Whites, Hispanics, and Asians. Black women were also more likely to die from type 2 endometrial cancer than other women. A small number

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“Endometrial cancer harbors one of the worst disparities for African-American women”

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University of North Carolina researchers are launching a major initiative to track 1,000 women across North Carolina with endometrial cancer to understand why the cancer is increasing in incidence and mortality, and why the disease is more deadly for some women than others. “Endometrial cancer does harbor one of the worst disparities for African-American women,”

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Study of prostate cancer genes in 686 men of African descent

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Researchers have identified genes that are more frequently altered in prostate tumors from men of African ancestry compared to other racial groups, in the largest study of its kind to date. The reasons for these differences is not known, say the researchers from Boston University School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, and Northwestern

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Cervical cancer screening rates too low among Asian American women

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Cervical cancer screening rates are suboptimal among Asian American women, despite considerable efforts to improve Pap test screening, said Carolyn Y. Fang of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Temple University’s Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. These patients have barriers to cancer screening use, which may be affected by multiple factors, including

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Prostate cancer trial participants were 96% white men

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An analysis of 59 prostate cancer clinical trials based in North America and Europe found that the vast majority of enrollees were white men. The proportion of white participants in prostate cancer clinical trials has largely remained above 80 percent since 1990, while the proportion of black or African American men in these trials decreased

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