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.

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.

On Wednesday, BlackDoctor.org unveiled findings from the St. Jude HPV Cancer Prevention Program, which show how cervical cancer disproportionately affects Black women. Studies show that Black ...

NEW YORK -- Jacque Berry and her daughter, Breanna Berry, are Black women who say they have been surrounded by cancer all their lives. "My great-grandmother had breast cancer," Breanna Berry, 30 ...

Uterine cancer stands poised to become one of America’s most pressing women’s health challenges, with Black women bearing a disproportionate burden that threatens to worsen dramatically in ...

Black women’s incidence of breast cancer is lower, but their death rate is higher. Five-year survival for breast cancers overall (all stages combined) was 83% for Black women, 92% for white ...

Breast cancer screening guidelines can be confusing. Here's what Black women should know about mammograms, including when and how to schedule them.

“Black women tend to get breast cancer at a younger age. Screening doesn’t start until age 40, but a lot of Black women can get breast cancer in their 30s.” ...

And because Black women tend to be younger when they’re diagnosed with advanced or even metastatic breast cancer, “due to a combination of biological, socioeconomic, and systemic factors, they ...

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 ...

Right now, Black women are 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women. Voices of Black Women is aimed at leveling cancer outcomes for women. The study is expected to last three ...

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 ...