Blacks suffer more from cancer, report finds
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Blacks still have a much higher death rate from cancer than whites even though U.S. cancer death rates are down overall and among blacks as well, the American Cancer Society said on Thursday.
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Melanoma may be more common in whites but the most serious form of skin cancer is deadlier in blacks and Hispanics because it is more likely to go undetected, researchers report.
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U.S. blacks continue to get inferior  cancer treatment compared to whites, researchers said on Monday  in a study showing that disparities first documented in the  early 1990s persist despite efforts to erase them.
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Uninsured Americans and those in a  government health program for the poor are far more likely to  have advanced diseases when diagnosed with cancer than those  with private coverage, researchers said on Sunday.
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Women from more deprived backgrounds have a lower breast cancer survival rate, research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Black women who feel they've been victims of racial discrimination are more likely than their peers to develop breast cancer, a large study suggests.
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Black women with uterine cancer are   more likely to die than white women given similar treatment,   U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - More African-American women are being screened for breast cancer than in years past, but they're still less likely to have the disease caught early compared with white women, a new study shows.
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The death rate from breast cancer continues to drop steadily by about 2 percent a year, but black women are not seeing the same benefits as whites, the American Cancer Society said on Tuesday.
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AIDS sufferers and transplant patients are at a much higher risk than the general population of developing a range of cancers, Australian research released Friday has found.
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-- A new study gives a possible explanation for why breast cancer is more deadly in black women: they are more likely to have tumors that do not respond to the hormone-based treatments that help many others with the disease.
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NEW YORK  - African Americans have a   two-fold higher risk of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), a   type of "hardening of the arteries" in the legs, than other   groups. The risk among African Americans is equivalent to   smoking one pack of cigarettes every day over a 20-year period,   experts say, making screening for this condition even more   important in this population.
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NEW YORK  - Blacks with chronic lung disease on the waiting list for lung transplantation before 2005 were more likely to die or be removed from the list than were white patients, according to New York investigators.
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Even distant relatives of cancer victims have a higher than average chance of suffering the disease themselves, researchers said. A study based in Iceland, where scientists have access to unique family tree
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Black American women are more likely  to have a hard-to-treat form of breast cancer, they get it  earlier and they are more likely to die of it, researchers said  on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - A large study of African-American women indicates that those with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are more likely to suffer from fibroids.
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Researchers find a strong association between body mass index and a variety of cancers.