the incidences of breast cancer are increasing more in women under 50. Research shows that Black women have a higher mortality rate overall. They have a 38% death rate in comparison to white women ...

that many cancer care providers are less likely to offer clinical trials to their black patients compared with their white patients." Laverne agrees that it is important that black women take part ...

In the most recent period (2013–2017) reported by the American Cancer Society, the breast cancer death rate was 40% higher in Black women than in White women.

Black women are 40 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, despite having a lower risk of being ...

The study builds on an analysis of National Cancer Database records from 2010 to 2019, which found that white patients were more than twice as likely as Black patients to begin treatment within 90 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The American Cancer Society is urging Black women to use their voices ... of dying from a breast cancer, compared to white women overall," she said. She says regardless ...

BLACK WOMEN HAVE A 38% HIGHER DEATH RATE FROM BREAST CANCER, DESPITE BEING DIAGNOSED AT THE SAME RATE AS WHITE WOMEN. I WOULDN’T HAVE KNOWN THAT HAD I NOT GONE THROUGH IT MYSELF. IT’S BEEN ...

Yet this progress has been uneven. Black women in the U.S. are about 40% more likely to die from breast cancer compared to white women, with disparities reaching as high as 50% in some areas.

According to Felicia E. Snead, MD, FASTRO, there is a significantly lower number of Black women who get breast cancer. Incidence in white women is far greater, but Black women tend to have more ...

According to the American Cancer Society, Black women are 41% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women and have the lowest 5-year survival rate of any race or ethnicity. Black Breast ...

A new report from the American Cancer Society has revealed two major concerns about the disease and its incidences. The report, which was published on Oct. 2, reveals that not only is the disease ...

more aggressive breast cancer diagnoses than white women. To shine a spotlight on the scope of these dangerous disparities, our Black Women and Breast Cancer package features science-backed ...