black women and breast cancer
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Fighting Breast Cancer: Tuskegee University Researchers Add a 4th Marker in Breast-Cancer Detection
A research team at Tuskegee University has just made a major breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer—particularly the most aggressive and fatal form, which affects black women at a 42 percent-higher rate (pdf) than white women. As reported by Michigan Chronicle Online, the team discovered a new means of detecting early markers and prescribing…
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‘Know Your Girls’ Encourages Black Women to Get Intimate With Breast Health
Despite a few outliers who say they “can’t trust women,” if there’s one thing black women have, it’s their “girls.” Knowing that, a group of black women—including actress Vanessa Bell Calloway, who herself has battled breast cancer, and Alicia Keys, whose mother is a breast-cancer survivor—have partnered with the Susan G. Komen foundation, the Ad…