ATLANTA, May 26 (UPI) -- Nearly 1 in 4 African-American women in the United States with late stage breast cancer refused chemotherapy and radiation therapy, researchers said.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 12 (UPI) -- High blood pressure is a predictor of mortality among breast cancer patients, especially African-Americans, U.S. researchers said.
HOUSTON, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- African-American women with breast cancer who have a lumpectomy are less likely to receive radiation compared to white women, U.S. researchers said.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 25 (UPI) -- A genetic mutation appears to link Hispanic, young African-American and Ashkenazi Jewish women who have breast cancer, a new study by U.S. researchers shows.
DALLAS, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The District of Columbia has the highest breast cancer death rate of any city in the country due to healthcare access and long treatment waits, a report found.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A U.S. researcher hopes her study increases awareness that breast cancer is more aggressive in African-American women.
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- White women are almost five times more likely to take tamoxifen, an anti-cancer medication, than African-American women, a U.S. study found.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. breast cancer death rate is dropping at more than 2 percent per year, in a trend that dates back to 1990.
LOS ANGELES, April 16 (UPI) -- African-American women with a family history of breast cancer are three times as likely to have early breast cancer than other black women.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. survey of African-American breast cancer survivors found the majority do not believe they have an increased chance of developing the cancer again.
