breast cancer screening

US Hispanic women have the youngest average age at breast cancer diagnosis at 57.2 years old in 2023, while White patients are diagnosed at the oldest average age at 64.5 years old. Black women are disgnosed at an average age of 61.7 years. Researchers analyzed more than 484,000 diagnoses of breast cancer between 2018 and […]

Hereditary DNA testing is recommended for all patients with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) to identify inherited BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations responsible for developing breast cancer and to help physicians in managing their patients’ treatment. To see who is being tested, researchers analyzed the medical records of 1,318 women diagnosed between 2017 and 2021  treated in US community oncology

Racial minorities bear a much higher cost burden than White patients for  unplanned hospital visits after breast reconstruction surgery, according to a study of more than 17,000 patients. Researchers could not identify from the data they analyzed why the women had undergone breast reconstruction. Black women were charged an average of $2,840 more than White

The University of California at Irvine in 2021 set up an online portal where women could schedule screening that their healthcare provider ordered or that they requested on their own. In all, more than 22,000 women used the portal. Most likely to self-schedule were Hispanic women and women living in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Most

Women living in 3,712 redlined U.S. census-tracts, especially in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, were 24 percent less likely than women living in A (“Best”) areas to meet breast screening targets. Poverty, lack of education and limited English proficiency were among the most significant barriers. See “Historic redlining practices cast a long

Breast cancer screening rates in the United States increased up to 4 percent and colorectal cancer screenings increased between 6 percent and 8 percent from 2012 and 2019 where local where paid sick leave was mandated. The analysis included workers who already had paid sick leave, meaning they were unlikely to decrease or increase cancer

Asian and Black women who received an incomplete score on their mammograms were more likely than White or Hispanic women to either delay their follow-up imaging beyond the recommended 60-day timeframe or forego it completely, according to a study of 4,500 women. Those who completed their forms in Spanish were also found to forego or

Nearly half of women between the ages of 40 and 49 don’t receive their recommended annual mammograms, according a survey of nearly 2,000 women in 2018.  The biggest reason by far, according to the women, was that they had never thought about it. Asian women were half as likely as White women to report undergoing

Black and Asian women are more likely than White women to experience significant delays in getting breast biopsies after their mammogram identifies an abnormality, according to a new review of more than 45,000 women’s cases. At 90 days from their mammograms, the risk of not undergoing a biopsy compared with White women was 28 percent

Healthy People 2020 was a national public health goal to increase the percentage of women between the ages of 50 and 74 who receive breast cancer screening every two years to 81 percent by the year 2020.  Only 9 states and one territory are meeting that goal: Massachusetts 87%Rhode Island 85%Hawaii 84%Puerto Rico and Maine