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 m...
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Black women and breast cancer
Traci Mulder
Monday, July 02, 2007 at 08:19 PMI think it is a mixture of things. I think as with many things, genes play a role. We know that AA women don't get mammograms as often or as early. We also know that AA women don't breast feed their infants as often. I know that in my 12 years as a labor and delivery RN, that was one of the areas our lactation consultants and our outreach groups were working on. Really trying to get more women and especially more AA women to breast feed. Now, if we could pinpoint which of these things played the main role we would be on top of the world wouldn't we?
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