Inside Precision Medicine September 19, 2024
Researchers from the Mass General Brigham have revealed that Black women face a higher risk of dying from breast cancer than white women across all tumor subtypes. The meta-analysis, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, shows that Black women’s risk of death varies from 17% to 50% higher depending on the type of breast cancer, underscoring the ongoing racial disparities in healthcare.
These findings suggest that factors beyond tumor biology, such as socioeconomic inequality, delays in diagnosis, and limited access to quality cancer treatment, contribute to these mortality differences.
“Black women who develop breast cancer are around 40% more likely to die of the disease than white women,” said senior author Erica Warner, a cancer epidemiologist at Massachusetts General...
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