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Disparities in Breast Cancer Risk
From HealthDay:
Women who live in urban areas appear to have more dense breast tissue than their suburban or rural counterparts, new research suggests.
The finding is potentially important because women with more dense breasts have a higher risk of breast cancer.
The study, which compared rural women from Greece to suburban and urban women in the United Kingdom, found that city-dwelling women were 54 percent more likely than their rural peers to have dense breasts.
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Posted by: David Porter on November 27, 2007
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Category: Breast Cancer; Health Disparities; Urban Health
Disparities in Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Screening
The Case Center for Reducing Health Disparities and Cleveland State University's Center for Health Equity are co-sponsoring the next lecture in our Works in Progress series.
"Disparities in Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Screening" will be presented by Jean Stevenson, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery CWRU and director of Breast Clinic and BREAST Project. Also presenting will be Ami Peacock, LISW, MSW, Cancer Care Center MetroHealth Medical Center.
Date: Friday, November 9, 2007
Time: 3-4 pm
Location: Case Western Reserve University- Medical School- T503. 2109 Adelbert Avenue.
Please RSVP your attendance to Sharon Lowstetter at slowstetter@metrohealth.org or by phone 778-8484.
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Posted by: David Porter on November 06, 2007
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Category: Breast Cancer; Screening Rates; Works in Progress
Triple Negative Breast Cancer
From CBSNews.com:
Nicole Sudler was a 28-year-old single mother when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
"I was shocked," she said. "And I was very, very afraid."
Sudler had one of the deadliest and most aggressive forms of breast cancer. Some researchers are calling it "triple negative."
"It kind of made me feel like 'Oh, God, my life is going to be over.' You know, dating, it's not going to happen anymore. Getting married? Probably not," Sudler said.
This kind of cancer is a triple threat because it strikes early; it's resistant to standard drug treatments; and more likely to kill. Its primary targets are young African-American women. Black women under the age of 50 are 77 percent more likely to die from the disease than white women of all ages.
Patients like Sudler compel Dr. Funmi Olopade of the University of Chicago to figure out what is going on.
You can read the rest of the article at CBSNews.com.
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Posted by: David Porter on August 27, 2007
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Category: Breast Cancer; Health Disparities; Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Disparity in Breast Cancer Treatment
The National Cancer Institute has an informative fact sheet of health disparities. One example of a disparity is African-Americans have a higher cancer mortality rate than other groups.
NYTimes.com is reporting on a new study published in The Journal of Clinical Oncology that argues education, geographic region, socio-economic status, and BMI were all "...significantly associated with receipt of intentionally reduced doses of chemotherapy."
The authors offer up this possible explanation, "...physicians may have anticipated a failure to understand and stick with what is often a long and unpleasant treatment, so they pre-emptively reduced the dose in hopes of encouraging compliance."
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Posted by: David Porter on January 23, 2007
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Category: Breast Cancer; Health Disparities; Triple Negative Breast Cancer