Black patients with triple-negative breast cancer may be less likely to receive immunotherapy than white patients
In recent years, Black patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) received immunotherapy at significantly lower rates ...
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Black Cancer Patients Are More Likely to Develop Heart Damage After Cancer Treatment, Study Says
A new study shows that Black patients are significantly more likely to develop heart damage after cancer treatment, known as ...
Black women have greater death risk from all types of breast cancer
Black women have a higher risk of dying from any type of breast cancer than White women, a new review finds. Overall, the ...
New York cancer death rates plummet, biggest drop among Black residents
The biggest decline was among non-Hispanic Black residents. Their cancer death rate dropped from 245.1 to 124, a 49.4% ...
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Black women are more likely than white women to die of all types of breast cancer
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. The findings, experts ...
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Common endometrial cancer test is less effective for Black women, research shows
But in the new study, which included data for about 1,500 Black patients, more than 11% of those with endometrial cancer (24 of 210 people) had endometrial thickness measurements that fell within ...
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Medscape Medical News, June 06, 2022 Study Sees Race Bias in ED Imaging Non-Hispanic Black ... cost of cancer drugs under Medicare Part D, and how somewhat arbitrary variations in a patient's ...
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Black women have a higher risk of dying from all types of breast cancer, meta-analysis reveals
Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer among U.S. women and the second leading cause of cancer death. Black women who develop breast cancer are around 40% more likely to die of the disease than ...
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Breast cancer: “Why I’m campaigning for more support for Black cancer patients and survivors”
Breast cancer survivor and campaigner Leanne Pero has just been awarded the Health Award at the 2020 National Lottery Awards for supporting Black cancer patients and survivors. This is her ...
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The New York Times: Deep Links Between Alcohol And Cancer Are Described In New Report Adults under age 50 have been developing breast cancer and colorectal cancer at increasingly higher rates ...
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Black women are more likely than white women to die of all types of breast cancer
Warner and her colleagues conducted a meta-analysis that looked at 18 studies with nearly 230,000 patients with breast cancer in total, 34,000 of whom were Black, comparing the mortality rates of ...