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Article: A link between race and breast cancer: Black women more likely to get a more lethal form, study finds.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- July 10, 2007
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Byline: Faye Flam
Jul. 10--Terry Buie of West Philadelphia had been getting regular checkups and mammograms when a lump seemed to spring up "almost overnight" under her right arm. Breast cancer was the last thing she worried about -- she was only 42 and had no family history of the disease.
But when she went to see oncologist Edith Mitchell at Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center, Mitchell wasted no time getting Buie to a surgeon to remove the lump for biopsy. Mitchell had seen too many other black women with fast-growing and drug-resistant tumors, and she didn't want to take any chances.
That was the first critical decision that may have saved ...