Breast cancer still diagnosed later in black women
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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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A new study claims many women are unaware of breast cancer symptoms and do not see their doctors after noticing changes. The findings come on the 10th annual Breast Cancer Day, which is aimed at raising awareness about the disease.
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A new long-term study finds that, over 20 years, only one in five women who have mammograms every two years will have to undergo follow up evaluation for a false positive finding.
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ELDRIDGE, Md. -- Being diagnosed with cancer is devastating, but imagine being diagnosed four times. That was the struggle for a young woman from Eldridge who just wouldn&#39;t give up.
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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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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is more effective than other screening methods for finding breast cancer in women whose genes leave them susceptible to the disease.
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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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TUESDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDayNews) -- 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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By Sheena Delazio, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Feb. 19--Bobbie Roberts was diagnosed in November with breast cancer for the second time.   She knew there would be changes, like hair loss and low self-esteem.   That's when her doctor told her about the Look Good ...
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Tumor cells found in the blood of breast cancer patients up to 20 years after surgery suggest that the body may have ways of keeping a dormant cancer in check, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - 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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NEW YORK  - Breast cancer survivors are 37 percent more likely to commit suicide than other women, and the elevated risk persists for at least 25 years after diagnosis, according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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Black women with advanced breast cancer  are faring no better now than they were two decades ago despite  improved survival by white women -- and the gap appears to be  widening, U.S. researchers said Sunday.
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Cancers were harder to detect in the breasts of lower-weight women who were also more likely to develop cancers between screenings, according to a study.
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NEW YORK  - About one of every five women  who participate in a routine breast cancer screening program  for 20 years will have a false-positive result, researchers  estimate.
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NEW YORK  - In women who've been treated  for breast cancer, use of the drug tamoxifen can help prevent  recurrence of the disease. Now, new research indicates that the  drug works equally well in black and white women.
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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.