Breast cancer is the second most common cause of death from cancer for African Americans according to the CDC. Dr. Elisa Bandera of Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and author of the study with Black women said in a news release:
“We know that breast cancer has several subtypes and there is growing evidence that these subtypes have different risk factors. The distribution of these subtypes and risk factors are different for African Americans and Hispanics compared to white women.”
Bandera knows that one study isn’t enough and said, “We need to know more about what African American women can do to prevent and survive breast cancers of all types, which are often aggressive and deadly.”
Obesity Linked To Increased Breast Cancer Risk For Black Women was originally published on blackdoctor.org
