In a survey of 78 primary care providers conducted by Gayathri R. Devi, Ph.D.,(above) and her colleagues at Duke University, most physicians expressed only a moderate ability to recognize inflammatory breast cancer in their patients. Less than a third had ever suspected IBC in a patient. Nearly half thought (wrongly) that a palpable breast mass […]
While 4 in 5 women recognize a lump in the breast as a sign of breast cancer, most women are unaware of the unusual symptoms of the particularly aggressive and deadly form of the disease known as inflammatory breast cancer. That’s according to an online 2022 survey of 1,100 U.S. women ages 18 and older.
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Women with inflammatory breast cancer — a rare, highly aggressive form of the disease — are living about twice as long after diagnosis than their counterparts in the mid-to-late 1970s, according to University of Michigan research led by Hannah Abraham (above). But despite overall improvements in survival, the analysis showed an ongoing disparity in life
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,
Women diagnosed with IBC more likely to be Black, poor, with more underlying conditions Read More »
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