Report: Breast Cancer Rates Rising In Black Women
A new report shows that the number of black women who are diagnosed with breast cancer is on the rise, but doctors are not sure what is causing the increased numbers.
About 232,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, according to government statistics. More than 39,000 women are expected to die from the disease this year.
About eight in 10 breast cancer cases and almost nine in 10 breast cancer deaths occur in women 50 years of age and older.
Previous research suggests black women with the disease fare worse than diagnosed white women.
A Harvard study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research medical conference in Oct. 2012 found within three years of a breast cancer diagnosis, black women were 50 percent more likely to die than white women.
This June, a JAMA study showed that black women are less likely to survive a breast cancer diagnosis within five years because they undergo fewer screenings, have poorer health at the time of diagnosis and have more advanced disease by the time the cancer is found.
The new report, published Oct. 1 in the American Cancer Society’s journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, tracked breast cancer incidence and death rates from 2006 through 2010.
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