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Blacks and Hispanics less likely to receive recommended lung cancer imaging

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African American patients with non-small cell lung cancer were only about half as likely as whites to receive PET-CT imaging which helps doctors match patients with the best treatments. Hispanics received this imaging about 70 percent as frequently as whites. “If African Americans and Hispanics aren’t getting the best imaging, this could be a piece […]

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Most Asian American women with lung cancer have never smoked

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Why Asian American women who never smoked tend to get lung cancer has perplexed researchers for years. “The phenomenon among Chinese is that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death of Asian women, but nearly 90% of Chinese women with lung cancer have never smoked,” said Moon Chen, a nationally known expert in

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Could routine mammography eliminate race disparity for women with triple-negative breast cancer?

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African-American women face a 40 percent higher death rate from breast cancer, partly due to more cases of triple-negative breast cancer. This kind of cancer does not respond to hormonal therapy medicines or drugs that target HER2 protein receptors. Researchers at the Henry Ford Cancer Institute in Detroit studied 193 women who were diagnosed between

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“No Woman Should Ever Die of Cervical Cancer”

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“I see these young women who are in their 30s or 40s with these horrible cervical cancers — advanced stage 3, 4. These are diseases you should be seeing in Third World countries or where they don’t have health care,” says Dr. Summer Dewdney, a gynecologic oncologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. “No

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A 90-70-90 strategy might eliminate disparities in deaths from cervical cancer

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In just 35 years, the United States managed to reduce cervical cancer rates by 54 percent with the help of Pap smears. Now, the World Health Organization’s 90-70-90 strategy of human papillomavirus vaccination, double screening and more effective treatment might be able do away with the disparity in death rates from cervical cancer in the

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Endometrial cancer research bill introduced in U.S. Congress

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The Endometrial Cancer Research and Education Act of 2020 to expand federal research on endometrial cancer and to increase awareness among patients and health care providers was introduced by Representative David Scott, Democrat from Georgia (above). The Endometrial Cancer Research and Education Act would authorize $500,000 annually from fiscal years 2021 through 2023 to support

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Black men with prostate cancer have similar survival rates to white men if they have equal access to health care

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African American men with prostate cancer have similar survival rates to white counterparts if they have equal access to health care, a new study suggests. Earlier research has found African Americans are twice as likely to die from prostate cancer as whites, and the reasons may include diagnosis when the disease is more advanced as

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Why Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Persist

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The gap in breast cancer incidence and outcome among black women is complex and multifactorial. Social, economic, and behavioral factors may partially account for the disparity. Black women are more likely to have diabetes, heart disease, and obesity, and are less likely to breastfeed after childbirth—all of which are risk factors for breast cancer. They

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Lack of insurance a major cause of delayed breast cancer treatment among minority women

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Lack of insurance coverage is a major cause of delayed breast cancer screening and treatment among minority women, which could lead to a decrease in a patient’s chance of survival, according to a new study. Nearly half of the disparity in later-stage diagnosis between white (non-Hispanic) women and black, Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander women was

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Progress on cervical cancer limited by funding gaps

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The survival rate for cervical cancer and uterine have been stagnant for years, even as the number of deaths from cancer in the United States dropped overall. But while treatments have improved dramatically for many forms of cancer, these particular cancers are left behind for a number of reasons, including gaps in treatment and limited

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