African American men are more than one and a half times as likely to develop prostate cancer and more than two times as likely to die from it compared to white men. Researchers at the University ...
The other group that continues to be at very high risk are African Americans. African Americans have among the highest rates of prostate cancer in the world. And that’s thought to be multifactorial, ...
African-American men are more than twice as likely to die from prostate cancer than other men. They typically develop prostate cancer at a younger age and tend to have more advanced disease when ...
A meta-analysis led by Mass General Brigham researchers reveals that Black women face a higher risk of dying from breast ...
In another study, of nursing home residents with cancer, African Americans were 63% more likely to not receive pain medication (after controlling for factors like gender and severity of illness).
the number one group of people that are diagnosed with lung cancer are African-American men. The number one group that die of lung cancer are African-American men. When we look at breast cancer ...
The American Cancer Society says Black women have a rate of breast cancer 4% lower than that of white women, but their death ...
African-Americans have a lower incidence of breast cancer than whites, but the highest breast cancer mortality of all ethnic groups. Ethnic minorities, particularly African-Americans and Latinas ...
If they're in a high-risk category, if they have a family history of prostate cancer, African-American, then those men should probably start at age 40 or 45 being seen on an annual basis.
Bevid Medical, a primary care provider in Greenville and Spartanburg, is offering low-cost prostate cancer screenings to ...
AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN ARE MORE THAN ONE AND A HALF TIMES AS LIKELY TO DEVELOP PROSTATE CANCER, AND MORE THAN TWO TIMES AS LIKELY TO DIE FROM IT COMPARED TO WHITE MEN. RESEARCHERS AT THE UNIVERSITY ...
Disparities exist for ethnic minorities for both the type of breast cancer and across the care spectrum. This has been studied best and is most marked for African-American women; however ...