Black Women's Higher Breast Cancer Deaths

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Black women are more likely than white women to die of all types of breast cancer

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Black women are 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, study finds.

The study looked at 18 studies with nearly 230,000 patients with breast cancer in total, 34,000 of whom were Black.

For the most common subtype of breast cancer, HR-positive, HER2 -negative, Black women were 50% more than white.

Experts say racial disparities, not biology, are driving the biggest differences in death rates.

Screening doesn’t start until age 40 , but a lot of Black women can get breast cancer in their 30s .

Anyone with a family history of breast cancer should start screening with mammograms 10 years before a sibling or parent was diagnosed, Dr. Marissa Howard-McNatt said.

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