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 ...

The American Cancer Society launched VOICES of Black Women, which is the largest study ever to focus on cancer risk and outcomes for Black women in America.

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 cases of breast ...

Among all races and genders, Black people have the highest death rate from cancer, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When it comes to Black women, they are more ...

In the same number of white women in their 40s, there were 15 deaths. They advised black women be screened at 42, while the same risk for white women doesn’t come until 51.

The survival rates for Black women with breast cancer are problematic. We talked with one survivor about what needs to change in the system. These stats are something that Ricki Fairley, a stage ...

The reasons Black women are more likely to die from breast cancer than white women are complex, but the disparity is, in fact, surmountable. The solutions aren’t easy or quick, but they do exist.

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.

For the most common breast cancer subtype—hormone receptor-positive (HR-positive), HER2-negative, which accounts for 60% to 70% of all breast cancer diagnoses —Black women were found to be 50% ...

Even though Black women have a 4% lower incidence rate of breast cancer than White women, they have a 40% higher breast cancer death rate. “The take-home message for US clinicians and health ...

Breast cancer is slightly less prevalent among Black women in the U.S. compared to white women. But they have a 40% higher risk of dying due to early-onset breast cancer.

Black women like McClenney are 40% more likely than white women to die of breast cancer, and the disease is now the leading cause of cancer death among Black women, surpassing lung cancer.