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 ...

In particular, many Black women are being told they have a low risk of their cancer returning after treatment, when they may have an aggressive form of cancer that requires more rigorous therapy.

Black women are more likely than white women to die from even the most treatable types of breast cancer, a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found.

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As breast cancer deaths decline in America, racial disparities persist in the mortality rates between Black and white women. Those rates remain 40 percent higher for Black women, who are also more ...

Black women are also twice as likely to be diagnosed with stomach cancer as White women and 2.3 times more likely to die from it. Yet Black women have historically been excluded from most clinical ...

Black women have long been underrepresented in cancer research. Black patients – men and women – a ccount for only 5% of clinical trial participants in the U.S.

Even though Black women in the US have about a 4% lower incidence rate of breast cancer than White women, they are more likely to die from the disease, according to the American Cancer Society ...

How 3 Black women took on breast cancer in our failed health care system by Dr. Elaine Batchlor and Dr. Medell Briggs-Malonson, opinion contributors - 11/26/23 8:00 AM ET Madeline Monroe/Adobe Stock ...

In following 44,798 Black women for up to 22 years, researchers found a higher rate of uterine cancer among postmenopausal Black women who reported having used chemical hair relaxers for at least ...

Researchers found that women who used permanent hair dye or chemical straighteners were at higher risk of developing breast cancer. "The association was notably higher among black women," says ...