endometrial cancer

“Endometrial cancer harbors one of the worst disparities for African-American women”

University of North Carolina researchers are launching a major initiative to track 1,000 women across North Carolina with endometrial cancer to understand why the cancer is increasing in incidence and mortality, and why the disease is more deadly for some women than others. “Endometrial cancer does harbor one of the worst disparities for African-American women,” […]

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Why mortality from endometrial cancer may be higher in black women

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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“African-American women less likely to receive evidence-based care for endometrial cancer”

“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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Endometrial cancer research bill introduced in U.S. Congress

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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Progress on endometrial cancer limited by funding gaps

The survival rate for cervical cancer and uterine (endometrial) 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

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“Racial disparity in uterine cancer outcomes one of the worst of all cancer types in this country”

While the CDC finds that non-Hispanic white and black women had similar incidences of uterine cancer, black women were more likely to be diagnosed with uterine sarcoma, the most aggressive form of uterine cancer, than women of other races, and also more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage than women of other races.

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African-American women nearly twice as likely to die from endometrial cancer than other women

Black women have a 90 percent higher mortality rate from endometrial cancer than all other groups of women with this cancer. It’s four times more common than cervical cancer and twice as common as ovarian cancer, “but if endometrial cancer is caught early, it is almost always curable,” says Kemi Doll, a University of Washington

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Why Are More Black Women Dying From Most Common GYN Cancer?

Dr. Kemi Doll (above), a gynecologic oncologist at the University of Washington, has spent the past seven years researching gynecological cancers and investigating the cause of the disparity in endometrial cancer. She believes that, as with racial discrepancies in other medical conditions, the difference in the endometrial cancer death rate is the result of how

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