Cervical cancer used to be a major cause of death in women during their childbearing years. But the development of the Pap smear in the 1950s and a vaccine in the 2000s against the virus that causes the cancer have greatly reduced the toll this cancer causes. But 4,000 American women still die each year […]
Abraham Aragones, a doctor and public health researcher who studies the issues surrounding HPV vaccination and cancer, especially among Hispanics, explains why the human papillomavirus (HPV) causes more cancer among Hispanics than any other group, and how getting more people vaccinated against the virus can improve public health. See “Helping Hispanics Prevent HPV-Related Cancers: 6
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Black women in Alabama are dying of cervical cancer at more than twice the national average, a trend that appears to be increasing despite the disease being preventable and curable if detected early, a Human Rights Watch report shows. The group blames the state’s restrictive health insurance policies, lack of physicians, poverty and structural racism
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Although African-American men are three times more likely to be diagnosed with multiple myeloma, most scientific research on the disease has been based on people of European descent, according to a study led by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. That is problematic considering that African-Americans — the most at-risk population for
A higher percentage of Black breast cancer patients had IBC compared to White breast cancer patients, in a study of 7,624 cases of invasive cancer in seven states. IBC patients were also more likely to be from areas of higher poverty and those with metastatic disease were more likely to be Black and from poorer,
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Black men are more likely to develop fast-growing prostate cancers and more likely to have the cancer spread by the time the disease would have been detected without screening than in other men. That’s the result of an analysis of government cancer data by researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. That
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