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Another Theory on Black Women and Breast Cancer Mortality

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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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
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It has long puzzled researchers why African-American women are more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, even though white women have a higher incidence of the disease. Now, a new hypothesis that will be published in an upcoming issue of the International Journal of Surgery suggest...
  1. Black Women and Breast Cancer
    Anonymous
    Thursday, March 08, 2007 at 07:58 PM

    I thought this research was very interesting.  I would like to know why more black women than white women develop breast cancer before menopause.  I know this a separate question.  I always wanted to know more about the epidemological studies of breast cancer.  For example, I live in upstate New York and New York State health statistics show breast cancer rates are much higher in some counties than in others.  Has there been much research about the reasons for the different occurence of breast cancer in different regions of the United States?

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