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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Scientists who have proposed a controversial theory that surgery to remove a breast tumor may actually help the cancer to spread said on Wednesday their ideas may also explain why black women have been more likely to die of breast cancer in the past.
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It's known that African Americans have an elevated risk of pancreatic cancer, but new study findings show they may also be less likely to receive surgery for the disease.
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MONDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- People who either have no health insurance or rely on Medicaid are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancers than people who have private health insurance, researchers from the American Cancer Society report.
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After undergoing prostate removal because of localized cancer, African-American men have better recovery of sexual and urinary function than do non-Hispanic white men, researchers report.
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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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Close relatives of cancer patients are often at substantially higher risk than the population at large of developing cancer themselves, a study of 32,000 cancer patients over nearly 50 years has revealed.
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People with Down's syndrome suffer cancer less than most other people and a study in mice published on Wednesday gives one possible explanation -- they produce higher levels of a certain protein.
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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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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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Even as antismoking campaigns have sharply reduced tobacco use, a recent study suggested that more than half of poor, black young adults smoke cigarettes.
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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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Daily pain is more common and severe among people with sickle cell disease than previously documented, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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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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Blacks get severe sepsis -- a rampant infection of the bloodstream that causes organ failure -- at nearly twice the rate of whites, and they are far more likely to die from it, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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NEW YORK  - People facing the prospect of  cancer treatment typically expect to suffer numerous side  effects -- often more than is actually likely -- a study  suggests.