Black women

April 11, 2018April 11, 2018

New Screening Guidelines Recognize High Breast Cancer Risk in African-American Women

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New breast cancer screening guidelines recognize for the first time that African-American women are at high risk for breast cancer and should be screened accordingly. The guidelines, published by the American College of ... Read more

May 10, 2017

Genetics Make Black Women More Likely to Develop and Die of Aggressive Breast Cancer Than White Women

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The risk of developing breast cancer is similar between white and black women, but black women are 42 percent more likely to die from aggressive subtypes of the disease, according ... Read more

May 16, 2016

Breast Cancer Risk: Black Women More Likely to Develop Disease

The American Cancer Society has recently revealed that black women have a higher propensity to develop breast cancer than women of other racial groups. The society had already released a ... Read more

March 13, 2015March 13, 2015

New Genetic Anomalies Connected To Breast Cancer In African American Families

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Heather Ochs-Balcom, a researcher at the University of Buffalo, recently led the “Jewels in our Genes” study that cleared previously unknown sequences of DNA that African American family members who develop breast cancer share in common. ... Read more

October 31, 2014November 19, 2014

Black Women With Breast Cancer Have Lower Survival Changes and Less Access to Health Care

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Black women suffering from breast cancer have a much lower survival chance than white women, according to the “Cancer Facts & Figures 2014” report recently released by the American Cancer ... Read more