“Don’t delay! Ban mentol cigarettes” “The tobacco industry has systematically targeted Black communities and kids with marketing for menthol cigarettes for over 60 years, and our community has paid a horrific price in health and lives,” says David Satcher former Surgeon General of the United States. “Tobacco use is the top cause of preventable death …
“Endometrial cancer is actually the most common GYN cancer in the United States. It’s four times more common than cervical cancer, it’s twice as common as ovarian cancer. As a GYN oncologist, we see women with endometrial cancer every day and often we’ll hear that women had never heard of it before they were diagnosed.” …
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Actor Will Smith, 50, recorded the story of his first colonoscopy in 2019 with the assistance of Ala Stanford, MD. Doctors removed one precancerous polyp from his large intestine. “You had a polyp there,” Stanford tells Smith. “Had you not known, it continues to grow and grow. And in African American men in particular, the …
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Why are Black women more likely to die from cervical cancer? “There really isn’t a genetic difference that is causing Black women to die at higher rates of cervical cancer,” says Olivia Cardenas-Trowers, MD, a Mayo Clinic urogynecologic surgeon. “It really has to do more with systemic racism. These disparities started way back when and …
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Six drivers of breast cancer disparities The Susan G. Komen Foundation conducted focus groups in 10 major metropolitan areas to understand the many barriers Black women face in preventing, treating and surviving breast cancer. The research identified several trends that exist to varying degrees in each metropolitan area. Source: “Susan G. Komen Launches “Stand For …
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“You can ignore it at your own peril. But if you love your family, love what you do, love the people around you, you’ve got to get screened for prostate cancer. There’s no stigma to it. Just get it done. Make sure you’re going to be around for your family,” says television personality and prostate …
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“There’s not an aspect of lung cancer care in which there’s not a significant disparity that hinders the ability of minority patients to get better care,” says Olugbenga Okusanya, MD, of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. “Black patients are less likely to get surgical therapy for early-stage disease, which is the actual cure for early-stage …
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“When you look at serous carcinomas (which accounts for most of the deaths from this cancer), they’re increasing over 6% every single year for Black women for almost the last 20 years. That’s a lot! If that trend continues over the next 10 years, when a Black woman gets diagnosed with uterine cancer, she’s going …
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“She shaped me as an actor as a musician, as a human being. So when my mother was diagnosed with colon cancer, it was like our whole family got cancer. And she died when she was only 56. Hopefully my heartbreak is your wake up call. Screening finds pre-cancerous polyps so they can be removed …
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“African American women have the highest mortality rate for cervical cancer because we are not getting screened, we are not going to the doctors, we are not taking our health into our own hands,” say Latasha Bostick and Darlene Cook, cervical cancer survivors. “They don’t have a vaccine for breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer. …
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