Black Americans Undertreated for Esophageal Cancer
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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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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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TUESDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDayNews) -- People who have survived cancer struggle with a lower quality of life, loss of productivity and more health limitations than those who never had the disease, researchers report.
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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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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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Black men in the United States are nearly seven times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than their white counterparts, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released on Thursday.
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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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-- 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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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  - There are disparities in the treatment and outcome between older black and white patients who have renal cell cancer, with blacks having significantly lower survival rates, according to a new study.
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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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Black women with uterine cancer are more likely to die than white women, a new report suggests.
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NEW YORK  - African Americans and Caucasians in the general US population have a similar prevalence of coronary atherosclerosis, according to new study findings.
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NEW YORK  - Black patients who are hospitalized after a heart attack are less likely than their white counterparts to undergo coronary bypass surgery, also referred to as revascularization, regardless of whether or not the hospital has a service specializing in this surgery, new research shows.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Even though U.S. Medicare has expanded coverage for colon cancer screening, blacks and Hispanics are not benefiting as much as whites, a new study shows.
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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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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.