‘Breast Cancer’ Archives
Chicago Barbara Bates Celebrates with Sisters Embracing Life
Sisters Embracing Life (SEL) is a Chicago-based minority cancer awareness support organizationFashion icon, designer and breast cancer survivor Barbara Bates will be one of the keynote speakers at Sisters Embracing Life’s 10th anniversary dinner and celebration. Bates [Read More]
Disempowering A Black Woman’s Breast
By Charles S. Mombo Self-ExaminationOn November 16, 2009, The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) announced that it is changing its guidelines for mammography. USPSTF’s new recommendation says women in their 40's don't need to get mammograms [Read More]
Exercise and sleep lower cancer risk in women
Breast CancerThe link between physical activity and a reduced cancer risk is well established, according to new research presented this month in Washington, D.C. at an international meeting on cancer prevention hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). [Read More]
Black Chicagoan – highest breast cancer mortality rate
Mammography screeningThe Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force recently released its report – highlighting the alarming breast cancer mortality disparity between black and white since 2005. In 1980, black women and white women in Chicago with breast cancer [Read More]
Black Women and Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Triple Negative Breast Cancer is rare, aggressive and difficult to treat version of breast cancer. 15 percent of the estimated 180,000 women who will learned that they have invasive breast cancer this year in the United States will also have triple negative. The majority of [Read More]
