The racial divide amongst breast cancer mortality rates are seeing a troubling increase. An analysis of breast cancer mortality trends in 41 of the largest cities in the United States shows that the chance of surviving breast cancer correlates strongly with the color of a woman’s skin. Black women with breast cancer — whether they hail from Phoenix or Denver, Boston or Wichita, Kan. — are on average about 40 percent more likely to die of the disease than white women with breast cancer.
Compiled and analyzed by the Sinai Urban Health Institute in Chicago and the Avon Foundation for Women, the study explores the health care system and how factors such as access, location, treatment quality and genetics contribute to the racial divide.
Read more about the study over at NYTimes.com.
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