Racial gap in endometrial cancer survival
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NEW YORK  - 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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Black women with early-stage breast  cancer have lower survival rates than their white counterparts  even after taking into account variables such as tumor size and  socioeconomic differences, researchers said.
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NEW YORK  - In the United States, rates of invasive cervical cancer declined between 1998 and 2002, although significant racial, ethnic, and geographic differences persisted, according to pre-vaccine surveillance data covering 87 percent the population of women.
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Women with the disease endometriosis are prone to certain cancers, mounting evidence suggests.
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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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NEW YORK  - Elderly women with invasive  cervical carcinoma are less likely to receive aggressive  treatment than younger patients, and are more likely to die  from the disease, a new study shows.
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Obese women with breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than those of a normal weight, researchers said today. US researchers looked at information
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NEW YORK  - The survival of pregnant women  who have malignant melanoma of the skin is no less than that of  comparable women who are not pregnant, European researchers  report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Women who feel chronically  stressed may have a lower risk of developing uterine cancer  than their less harried peers, researchers have found.
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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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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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Despite similar levels of physical activity, white women appear to have a greater reduction in their risk of developing diabetes than women of other races.
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NEW ORLEANS  - Despite similar levels of  physical activity, white women appear to have a greater  reduction in their risk of developing diabetes than women of  other races.
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Black people in the United States are  far more likely than whites to die from strokes, diabetes and  other diseases, according to a federal study that shows wide  racial disparities persist in health care.
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Women who have more than two alcoholic drinks a day double their risk of endometrial cancer compared with those who drink less, a new study finds.
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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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After cancers of the lung and breast, colorectal cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer deaths among US women. About 130,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed in the United States every year, resulting in 56,000 deaths.