The genetic mutations that can increase breast cancer risk are the same for both Black and white women, which means that currently available genetic tests are effective for Black women. Three of the most well-known genes that can mutate and raise the risk of breast and/or ovarian cancer are BRCA1, BRCA2, and PALB2. Women who […]
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Rates of smoking among American Indians and Alaska Nativesare higher than for other US adults. On the basis of data from the 2016 National Health Interview Survey from the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 31.8% of American Indian and Alaska Native adults smoke. In contrast, the rates of smoking were
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Insulin resistance is one factor that contributes to the worse prognosis in breast cancer between black and white women, potentially through direct effects of insulin on the tumor insulin receptor, according to a study of US women with newly diagnosed invasive breast cancer. Because of differences in circulating insulin levels and tumor insulin receptor expression
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Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer, diagnosed in one in 37 U.S. women. But there are known racial disparities in outcomes, as the five-year mortality rate among black women with endometrial cancer is 90% higher than it is among white women. Only 53% of black women with the condition receive an early diagnosis.
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Screening guidelines for lung cancer by the United States Preventive Services Task Force limit those eligible to smokers aged 55 to 80, who have a 30 pack–year smoking history and who quit no more than 15 years prior to screening. However, this does not accurately reflect the smoking habits of Blacks or their susceptibility to
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National differences in prostate cancer survival between Black and white men may be due to significant disparities in four regions, according to a new study of more than 213,000 men in 17 areas of the United States from 2007 through 2014. Black men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer in 4 of the 17 areas had
The greater the proportion of ancestry from Indigenous America a Hispanic woman has, the greater the likelihood that she will be diagnosed with HER-2 positive breast cancer, a more aggressive type of the disease. Indigenous Americans are the pre-Columbian peoples of North, Central and South America and their descendants. This ancestry could help account for
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Cervical cancer is now viewed by most physicians as preventable, and in more affluent parts of the country it is correspondingly rare. But in the poorer pockets of less wealthy states it remains disturbingly common. Women who develop cervical cancer in Alabama are more likely to die than their counterparts in any other state—and in
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Latinas are the second most common ethnic group to carry BRCA1 deleterious mutations, after Ashkenazi Jewish women, among all patients with breast cancer. However, Latinas are less likely to receive genetic counseling education, referrals, and testing services and have the least awareness of genetic testing compared to non-Hispanic whites and other minority populations. Research indicates
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“Even if African-American women receive evidence-based care, it may mitigate but does not completely eliminate the survival disparities that we saw based on race,” says Jason D Wright (above) of Columbia University’s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center in New York. “We still need to work and look at other factors that may be responsible for
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