The American Cancer Society hopes to enroll 100,000 women and follow them for three decades to discover what’s causing higher case and death rates. By Roni Caryn Rabin The American Cancer ...
Photo Credit: Travis Dove for The Washington Post, via Getty Images The American Cancer Society is embarking on a pioneering study focusing on a critically underserved population: Black women. This ...
Researchers launched a new study to find the reasoning behind a rise in Black women being diagnosed with breast cancer. There have been a number of studies identifying how genetics play a part in ...
Data gathered as part of the NIH-funded African Ancestry Breast Cancer Genetic consortium will be used by researchers around the world. In an ambitious pursuit to unravel the unique genetic risks ...
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WALKING OUT OF THE COMMENCEMENT NEW THIS MORNING, THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY ANNOUNCED THE LAUNCH. OF ITS NEW STUDY, TITLED VOICES OF BLACK WOMEN. IT’S EXPECTED TO BE THE LARGEST BEHAVIORAL AND ...
Want to learn more? See our newsletter page here. (The Dallas Examiner) – Black women make up close to 22 million of the population across the United States. Yet, in a country of over 332 million ...
Called “the emperor of all maladies,” cancer strikes tens of thousands of Americans each year. But while the death rate from the disease has declined during the past two decades in the U.S., Black ...
LEADING KILLER. WE ALL KNOW SOMEONE WHO’S BATTLED IT OR LOST FRIENDS OR LOVED ONES TO IT. CANCER DOESN’T DISCRIMINATE, BUT IT DOES HIT CERTAIN GROUPS OF PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY HARD. BLACK WOMEN ...
May 13 (Reuters) - Twelve breast cancer genes identified in women of African ancestry in a large study published on Monday may one day help better predict their risk for the disease and highlights ...