One of his most illuminating findings is that Black women had "slightly lower" breast cancer mortality than their white counterparts before 1980 when mastectomy was the mainstay of treatment.

Medical exploitation is an often overlooked part of Black history and partly explains the mistrust that members of the Black ...

In August, Dr Habib Naqvi, chief executive of the NHS Race and Health Observatory, warned that there is a “broad misperception” that Black women “don’t suffer as much from breast cancer ...

Since then, she has been speaking up about the importance of mammograms and the lack of research available regarding black women and breast ... and that is when her breast cancer was discovered. It ...

Woman whose symptoms were mistaken for periods dies As a black man I wasn't included ... "Seeing mam suffering with the cancer, I would like to see improvements in the speed and accuracy of ...

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Sheila Jackson Lee died on July 19 at 74 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Lee was a veteran ... Wright was an elderly Black woman who was in the middle of a land dispute with a major ...

Standing far apart and perpendicular to each other are two black high-heeled ... In France, more than a million women have had or currently suffer from breast cancer. More than a million breasts ...

a policy advisor for the Black Women’s Health Imperative. “We’re suffering from late-[stage] diagnoses — we’re getting screening too late,” Udoh said. “We have 35-year-olds being diagnosed with breast ...

Health News // 18 hours ago Black women have greater death risk from all types of breast cancer Black women have ... they've got could be less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke, a new ...