Study Finds Black Women At Higher Risk Of Breast Cancer Death
New Study Finds Black Woman At Higher Risk Of Death From All Types Of Breast Cancer
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Although studies have proven that black women are 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women, there is actually more to that.
New research has shown that black women are at a higher risk of dying from all forms of the disease.
The new research was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. In this study, researchers found black women are at a higher risk of dying from all tumor subtypes of breast cancer with the size of this disparity varying from 17% to 50% depending on the type of breast cancer.
Researchers of the study used data from 18 studies that were published between 2009 and 2022. They analyzed a total of 228,885 breast cancer cases with 34,262 of which were in Black women.
The authors also found that some contributing factors were systemic racism, including socioeconomic inequality, delays in diagnosis, and inadequate access to timely quality cancer treatment.
“To achieve equity, intervention is necessary at multiple levels — from community to healthcare systems and individual healthcare providers to patients themselves learning about their disease and what their expectations should be for their care,” senior author Erica Warner said in a press release.
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