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Remarkable progress has been made in breast cancer screening and care in the past 20 years. Survival is improving, surgery can be less invasive in most cases, targeted therapies with fewer side effects are available, and not every breast cancer has to be treated with harsh chemotherapy.
However, even with all of this progress, one recent study(2012 Racial Disparity in Breast Cancer Mortality Study), funded by the Avon Foundation for Women, suggests these advances aren’t available to everyone.
In 21 of 24 cities, the study found that black women had higher mortality rates from breast cancer.
The 2012 Racial Disparity in Breast Cancer Mortality Study also showed that black women are not dying from breast cancer any more than they were in the past; it’s that white women are dying less. For the last 20 years, the breast cancer mortality rate for black women has remained the same, but the rate for white women has been cut in half because they have access to the new advances in diagnosis and treatment.
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tam
June 1, 2012 at 3:37 am
Blah, blah! The main reason Black women die more often from breast cancer is from good old fashion racism! All those medical studies are just more blather to fault the Black woman for her suppossed lackadaisical attitude concerning her health. I read studies that say techs don’t check Black women as thoroughly as they do whites. But along with racism comes lots of other factors as well, such as unemployment, no health insurance, lack of available healthy affordable food options, and uncaring medical practitioners. Why do these Black websites keep regurgitating everything they read on main stream media(white)sites and trying to shove it down our throats!
Elizabeth Moore
May 31, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Most black women die because we get fibrocystic breast cancer more often than other races. It begins with a bruise on the breast and when the bruise becomes a lump you are in stage-4 cancer. Most womens center don’t speak enough on FIBROCYSTIC BREAST CANCER. Pass on this valuable information.