African American Women Less Likely to get Breast Cancer

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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 m...

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Traci Mulder

7/ 2/07 8:19pm

I 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?

Jacobintl

11/20/09 4:57am

It is also significant to develop some breast cancer tests of your own, that you can do on a normal basis in between mammograms. As soon as you strike puberty, it’s an excellent idea to conduct self breast cancer tests as this begins the period where your probability of suffering breast cancer begins. Most cases of breast cancer are in women over 40, but there are a number of cases found in girls as young as early teens each year. Also, most people don’t understand that breast cancer can also occur in men! While it’s limited to about one percent of the total cases, still there is strong possibility of this fact.

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