Article: Participate In National Mammography Day; African American Women Are Urged To Begin Testing For Breast Cancer At Earlier Ages

Article: Breast cancer: confronting a major killer of ...
Ebony;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... know: Will I get breast cancer? For Black women in particular, the ... for White women. * Breast cancer deaths among Black women are rising while they ... Black women to get breast cancer, Black women who get the disease ...

Article: Why breast cancer kills more black ...
Ebony;  March 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... though White women are more likely than Black women to get breast cancer, Black women are more likely to die from it. (Since ... medical profession's understanding of breast cancer in Black women is in its early stages, how are they ...

Article: Risk For Breast Cancer In Black Women ...
New Pittsburgh Courier;  September 7, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Risk For Breast Cancer In Black Women Triples. It's an affliction ... author of the book, "Breast Cancer/Black Women" published in 1994 ... that over 35 percent of Black women contract breast cancer before they're 50 ...

Article: Breast cancer: the increasing threat to young ...
Ebony;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... survival rate after diagnosis and the highest breast cancer mortality rate in the United States ... Cole, whose mother died at age 44 from breast cancer. "[Black women] are diagnosed with breast cancer at younger ages and often have more aggressive ...

Article: Black Women Need Earlier Detection of Breast ...
Los Angeles Sentinel;  October 6, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... Los Angeles Sentinel 10-06-1994 Black Women Need Earlier Detection of Breast Cancer. Black women are more than twice as likely as ... consensus in the medical community that breast cancer in black women is not getting diagnosed early enough ...

Article: A link between race and breast cancer: Black ...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  July 10, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... than 2,000 breast-cancer patients ... found that black women were more ... paradox: Black women are less likely ... women to get breast cancer, and yet ... disproportionately strike black women. "The breast-cancer cells have ...

Article: Breast cancer a leading cause of death among ...
Indianapolis Recorder;  October 25, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... 30. Ten percent of Black women contract breast cancer before age 40. The ... women will die from breast cancer annually. Black women are more likely to ... lives. In fact many Black women view breast cancer as a "white women ...