Racial disparities persist in the diagnosis of advanced breast cancer and colon cancer in the U.S.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 13:28 in Health & Medicine

The incidence of advanced breast cancer diagnosis among black women remained 30 percent to 90 percent higher compared to white women between 1992 and 2004, according to new findings by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In addition, the disparity in the incidence of advance colorectal cancer actually widened over this time period as rates fell among whites but increased slightly among blacks.

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