Disparity in Breast Cancer Between Black and White Women Can Be Eliminated by Regular Mammography Screening

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Disparity in Breast Cancer Between Black and White Women Can Be Eliminated by Regular Mammography Screening

Rush University Medical Center
News Release
2012-09-25

(CHICAGO) — Regular mammography screening can help narrow the breast cancer gap between black and white women, according to a retrospective study published in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment in August.

Earlier studies have shown that black women in Chicago are more than twice as likely to die of breast cancer compared to white women. Black women with breast cancer reach the disease’s late stages more often than white women, and their tumors are more likely to be larger and more biologically aggressive.

But according to the study, when women of both races received regular breast cancer screening — a mammogram within two years of breast cancer diagnosis — there was no difference in the rate of how many of them presented in the disease’s later stages

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