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Issues In Breast Cancer Among Minority Populations
Author(s) -
Bell Juliette B.,
Venkatachalam K. V.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.20.4.a424-a
Subject(s) - breast cancer , medicine , cancer , incidence (geometry) , demography , mortality rate , ethnic group , disease , lung cancer , cause of death , gynecology , gerontology , oncology , physics , sociology , anthropology , optics
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers affecting American women and is second only to lung cancer as a leading cause of cancer death in women. About 200,000 U.S. women are newly diagnosed with breast cancer each year, and nearly 45,000 women die from this disease. Although substantial progress has been made in diagnosing and treating breast cancer, it continues to take a heavy toll, particularly among African American women. Between 12 and 29 percent more Caucasian women than African American women are diagnosed with breast cancer, yet African American women are 28 percent more likely than Caucasian women to die from this disease. Data from the National Cancer Institute indicate that white, non‐Hispanic women have the highest overall incidence rate for breast cancer among U.S. racial/ethnic groups, while Korean American women have the lowest rate. Among women ages 40–50, African American women have a higher incidence of breast cancer than white women. African American women also have the highest mortality (death) rate from breast cancer, while Chinese American women have the lowest death rate. Several factors have been found to impact the breast cancer incidence and death rates among racial and ethnic groups. This session will examine some of these issues as well as provide recent research on breast cancer.