The American Cancer Society aims to enroll over 100,000 Black, cancer-free women between the ages of 25 and 55 and follow them for three decades.

Black women have the highest breast cancer death rates of any racial group – 40% higher than white women and more than double Asian and Pacific Islander women, who have the lowest death rates ...

For the most common subtype, HR-positive, HER2-negative, which accounts for 60% to 70% of all breast cancer diagnoses, Black women were 50% more likely to die from the disease than white women.

Black women die from cancer at higher rates than any other racial or ethnic group. The American Cancer Society is beginning a 30-year study to investigate why. IE 11 is not supported.

For added perspective, Black women are diagnosed at a 4% lower rate than white women with breast cancer. Yet, Black women are dying from this disease “at a 40% higher rate than white women.” ...

The aging American population contributes to rising cancer rates across all demographics, but additional factors amplify ...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women globally. But, in part thanks to screening programs, over 75% of ...

VOICES of Black Women aims to study 100,000 Black women for several decades. Jacque Berry and her daughter, Breanna Berry, are Black women who say they have been surrounded by cancer all their ...

For years, lung cancer has been the leading cause of cancer deaths in non-Hispanic Black women. That changed in 2019 – it’s now breast cancer.And there are racial disparities when it comes to ...

Breast Cancer. After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), we should expect around 300,000 new ...

Black women are more likely to die from breast cancer than white women across the United States, even though Black women have lower breast cancer incidence rates, according to a 2022 American ...

Black women should be screened for breast cancer eight years earlier than guidelines recommend, new research suggests. Published in the JAMA Network Open journal on Wednesday, the study explored ...