Racial gap in endometrial cancer survival
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Despite receiving similar  treatment, black women with advanced or recurrent endometrial  cancer fare worse than their white counterparts, according to a  report in the September 25th online issue of Cancer.
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Women from more deprived backgrounds have a lower breast cancer survival rate, research suggests.
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Women who develop breast cancer because they carry one of three defective genes are no less likely to survive over the long term than other breast cancer patients, Canadian and Israeli researchers said on Wednesday.
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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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Minority women in the United States are less aware of heart problems and stroke than their white counterparts despite being at greater risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a study released on Monday.
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Jewish women of Eastern European descent who have ovarian cancer and carry certain genetic changes live longer than those without the mutations, according to a study published on Tuesday.
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A population-based study of  black and white American women with and without breast cancer  found that relatively few were carriers of mutations in BRCA1  or BRCA2 genes. Women who carry BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations  are more susceptible to developing breast and ovarian cancer.
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Black women are less likely to have breast-reconstruction surgery after a mastectomy than women of other races or ethnic groups, according to a University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center study.
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Black American women are less likely than women of other races to have breast reconstruction after mastectomy, says a study published in the online edition of the journal Cancer.
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Obese women face a greater risk of colorectal cancer than obese men, says a Stony Brook University study presented Nov. 1 at the American College of Gastroenterology annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
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BOSTON---Although black men in the United States are more likely than white men to be diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and have a two-fold greater risk of dying from it, they are significantly less likely to be screened for prostate cancer
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Good news continues to come forth from the cancer front: U.S. death rates from the disease have declined by 18.4 percent among men and by 10.5 percent among women since mortality rates first started going down in the early 1990s.
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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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THURSDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- Even though surgery can extend the lives of many people with esophageal cancer, only 25 percent of black Americans have  the procedure compared to 46 percent of white patients, a new study reports.
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THURSDAY, June 28 (HealthDay News) -- Women can look to their mothers and sisters to help determine their chances of survival from breast cancer, new research suggests.
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Black esophageal cancer patients in the United States are half as likely as whites to get surgery that can help them live longer and often do not even see a surgeon, researchers reported on Tuesday.
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U.S. black men aged 65 and older run twice the risk of dying from prostate cancer than comparable whites, but they are less likely to have a common blood test to detect the disease, a study said on Monday.