... Public Health. Participants were 139 African-American women between the ages of 21-49 who resided ... target women in particular, the language, imagery, and themes clearly targeted African-American people ...
... has found that even taking these factors into consideration, African-American women face three times the risk of developing an aggressive "triple negative tumor" compared to ...
... breast cancer outcomes continue to exist for African-American women, regardless of the age at which they are diagnosed, extent of ... -year survival rate compared with Caucasian women (68.6 versus 79.4 ...
... (stage III) breast cancer than white women. To get a better sense of the tumor characteristics ... Approximately 87 percent of these cases were in African American women. Triple negative tumors accounted ...
... study finds that nearly one in four African American women with late stage breast cancer ... issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study indicates that more efforts ...
... Cancer Society, the study indicates that African-American women may face obstacles to receiving appropriate ... diagnostic follow-up (median time = 44 days for African Americans and 40 days for European ...
... in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. The study found that many African-American women perceive they are being treated with disrespect and receive inadequate explanations about screenings when ...
... death rates have also decreased among African American women, they are dropping at a slower rate than among ... men (12 percent) and breast cancer in women (19 percent). Cancer of the colon and rectum ...
... cancer patients.
"White women are more likely to get breast cancer, but African-American women are more likely to die from it," said Braithwaite. "We were trying to shed light on the factors that ...
... original study. We will also follow the 2,000 women for two years following diagnosis to examine ... impact of breast cancer in young African American women," said Valarie Worthy, president of the Sisters ...
African-American women under the age of 40 have a higher risk of breast cancer than do white women ... . White women aged 40 and older, however, have a higher incidence than black women aged 40 and older.
... . However, this did not hold true for African-American women. In the first study to examine the association ... adult economic factors on midlife obesity for Mexican-American women, study author Pamela J. ...
... 3.3 million white women, 1.4 million African-American women, and 575,000 Mexican-American ... for midlife obesity among Mexican-American and White women who were poor as children and adults. However, this ...
... on breast cancer screenings and socio-demographics also were collected.
Among other findings:
African-American women were found to have higher levels of mistrust; 39 percent strongly agreed that ...
... the long term, compared with traditional exercise programs.
Tan also explained that the focus on African American women was due to their prevalence in the two community groups from which the study ...
