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Article: Breast cancer's quiet victims
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 22, 1994
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For years the medical establishment has turned to the same
well-worn arguments to explain why breast cancer is deadlier to black
women than to white women.
Black women are poorer, the establishment has said, so they often
don't have health insurance. Because they don't have access to care,
their cancer is diagnosed later, when it is more difficult to treat.
Those factors are real, but a recent National Cancer Institute
study shows they explain less than half of the breast cancer survival
differences between the races. Five years after diagnosis, the
study says, 79 percent of white women are still alive, but only 62
percent of black women have survived.
"Black women still continue to die at ...