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African-American women with advanced breast cancer often forego vital treatment
May 22, 2009 |
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A new study finds that nearly one in four African American women with late stage breast cancer refused chemotherapy and radiation therapy, potentially life saving therapies. Published in the July 1, 2009 issue of Cancer, a peer ...
Study quantifies racial disparities in cancer mortality rates between blacks and whites
Mar 20, 2009 |
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African Americans have a shorter life expectancy than whites, and cancer plays a major role in this disparity. African Americans are more prone to get cancer; they tend to present at a later, deadlier stage; and they have ...
High blood pressure linked to earlier death among African-American breast cancer patients
Mar 04, 2009 |
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A study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco has shown that hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a predictor of mortality among breast cancer patients, especially those who are African-American, ...
Triple threat to health: Lifelong abuse creates serious consequences for older African-American women
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Older African American women who have experienced high levels of family violence throughout their lives are more likely to suffer worse physical and mental health than their counterparts, found a Temple researcher in the ...
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Increasing physical activity and limiting television may lead to reduction in type 2 diabetes
Dec 08, 2008 |
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Researchers from Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center have found that reducing time spent watching television and increasing time spent walking briskly or engaged in vigorous physical activity may reduce the incidence ...
Discrimination takes its toll on Black women
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Racial discrimination is a major threat to African American women's mental health. It undermines their view of themselves as masters of their own life circumstances and makes them less psychologically resilient and more prone ...
African-American women still have poorer breast cancer outcomes
May 04, 2009 |
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New research published in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows that dramatic disparities in breast cancer outcomes continue to exist for African-American women, regardless of the age at whi ...
Breast cancer is more aggressive in African-American women
Oct 29, 2007 |
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African American women are diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age and have larger tumors and more lymph node involvement than Caucasian women, a Yale School of Medicine researcher reported today.
Health benefits of physical activity more pronounced in women
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Many experimental studies have found that physical exercise can improve cholesterol levels and subsequently decrease the risks of cardiovascular disease; however, few of these studies have included enough participant diversity ...
Spirituality plays role in breast cancer information processing for African-American women
Jan 31, 2007 |
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The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 178,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer and more than 40,000 will die as a result of breast cancer in 2007. One way to battle these numbers is through increased ...
Emotional, Not Just Physical Weight, Increases Type 2 Diabetes Risk
Mar 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The combination of stress and obesity may significantly influence the development of type 2 diabetes among African-American women, with stress having a potentially greater role, according to researchers from ...
ER/PR negative tumors associated with insurance status
Nov 18, 2008 |
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African-American women are at a higher risk for ER/PR negative breast cancer. A new study, to be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention ...
Breast cancer returns more often in black women
Oct 29, 2007 |
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Contrary to previous studies, African-American women with early-stage breast cancer who have surgery to remove the cancer (lumpectomy) followed by radiation therapy have a higher chance of their cancer coming back in the ...
Whites take supplemental breast cancer therapy more often than blacks
Oct 08, 2007 |
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A new study finds that white women more frequently take more of the life-prolonging supplemental therapies used to treat breast cancer than African-American women.
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