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Black Women and Breast Cancer

Beth Brophy
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Journalist, Survivor - Active 2005 to 2007

Beth Brophy no longer writes for this site. From 2005 to 2007 she...

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From Washington Post, 6-23-07: Black Women Hit by Drug-Resistant Breast Cancer: Scientists Look at Genes, Breast-Feeding Patterns

Black women, who are less likely than whites to get breast cancer, are more likely to die from it. Perhaps the reason why is that black women are more likely to get a more aggressive form of the disease, known as “triple-negative” that can’t be helped by many of the last treatments. Is it genetic? Or is there a racial disparity for health care? Or both?
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