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Article: Why breast cancer kills more black women.
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
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Alarming statistics spark national search for answers
Teresa Ross was 44 when she learned she had breast cancer. "When my doctor told me," recalls the Washington, D.C., mother, "I lost complete control of myself. I didn't just cry; I became hysterical. Part of it was fear and part of it was shock. I'd never given breast cancer a second thought."
Like the majority of Black women her age, until Ross was diagnosed with the disease three years ago, she had never had a mammogram, a low-dose X-ray of the breast that accurately diagnoses 90% of breast cancers.
"The only reason I had the mammogram is because my doctor insisted," says Ross, a program analyst ...