Posts Tagged ‘Breast’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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