‘Breast Cancer’ Archives
Disempowering A Black Woman’s Breast »
By Charles S. Mombo On 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 if breast cancer is not in their family history. They suggest women should get one every [...]
Exercise and sleep lower cancer risk in women »
The 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). James McClain, Ph.D., a cancer prevention fellow at the National Cancer Institute and [...]
Black Chicagoan – highest breast cancer »
The 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 were equally likely to die. New breast cancer mortality data from 2004 and 2005 provided a [...]
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 triple negative patients will be young African-American women. Triple [...]
