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December 16, 2024

Posts tagged "Breast Cancer"

Routine Mammograms for Older African American Women

Over the last 20 years, the issue of breast cancer has been brought into the national limelight with famous women coming out about their struggles, and large fundraising and advocacy groups pushing mammograms. Will an education-based intervention aimed at encouraging  →

Why Older African American Women Are More Likely to Die From Breast Cancer Than Other Groups : Culture, Religion, and Medicine

Research has shown that older African-American women are significantly more likely than other demographic groups to die of breast cancer and several have connected this fact to issues of culture and religion, not to a higher biological propensity. The question  →