Breast Cancer Afflicts Black Women Earlier
February 3, 2008
:: HEALTH
Black women present with breast cancer on average 21 years younger than white women and they are more than twice as likely to die of the disease, according to staff at Homerton Hospital in north- east London. They found the average age for black women presenting with tumours was 46 but the age of entry into the NHS breast screening programme is 50. Tumours in younger women were also considerably more aggressive in the black population; there were no socioeconomic or treatment differences between the women.
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