In breast-cancer prevention, race matters

Monday, January 14, 2019 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

African-American women at high risk of breast cancer are less likely than white women to pursue potentially life-saving preventive care, and racial disparities in health care and elsewhere are to blame, new research suggests. “African-American women faced additional burdens at every step along the risk-management journey,” researchers from The Ohio State University wrote in a […]

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