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Article: Breast cancer: confronting a major killer of black women.(includes related information about warning signs and sources of help)
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
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Every woman wants to know: Will I get breast cancer? For Black women in particular, the question has a special urgency since researchers have found that we are twice as likely as White women to die from the disease.
These are the facts:
* Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among African-American women between the ages 30 and 54.
* Black women develop the disease at a younger age then White women.
* Breast tumors may be more aggressive in Black women (In a recent study of 1,200 Black and White women with breast cancer, researchers at George Washington University Hospital found that, although treatment varied little, ...