Black American women have worse form of breast cancer

September 6, 2007 | Filed under News 

Black American women have worse form of breast cancer
A study has shown that Black American women have the worst form of breast cancer, their cancer is more hard to treat and they get it earlier the study also says that Black woman from the U.S are more likely to die of the disease. The researcher’s findings were presented at a breast cancer conference which was held in San Francisco.

These findings supported other studies that there are ethnic differences when it comes to breast cancer. Researchers said that “We found overall that African-Americans are diagnosed at younger ages and at more advanced stages than their white American counterpart.”

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