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Key Facts about Black Women and Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among Black women in the U.S., exceeded only by lung cancer.
Black women have the highest mortality rate of any ethnic or racial group.
Black women are more than twice as likely to die of breast cancer as their white counterparts.
Black women under 45 have the highest rate of breast cancer incidence.
Black women have the lowest frequency of early breast cancer detection and diagnosis (Stage 1).
Low income Black women are 3 times more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stage disease than higher income black women.
Black women utilized breast cancer screening services almost 40% less than white women between 1991 and 1998.
During the years 1973 through 1995 the breast cancer mortality rate among white women dropped by 7.1% but among black women the mortality rate increased by 19.4%.
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS TAKEN FROM
VARIOUS RESOURCES SUCH AS THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, THE CENTERS FOR
DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF BREAST CANCER
ORGANIZATIONS AND THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE AND IS INTENDED FOR GENERAL
REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among Black women in the U.S., exceeded only by lung cancer.
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