October’s Breast Cancer Awareness month is a chance for health professionals to encourage women to get tested annually. In a statement, he said “I wouldn’t want to say it has had no effect but it certainly has not lived up to the anticipated effect”. For decades, black women had lower breast cancer rates than whites, but that gap has narrowed in recent years.
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A 2013 ESPN report showed that, for every $100 the National Football League sold in pink merchandise, only $11.25 went to the American Cancer Society.
Aside from skin cancer, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women. The black-white disparity in breast cancer death rates has increased over time; by 2012, death rates were 42 percent higher in black women than white women.
Imagine hearing those dreaded words, “You have breast cancer”. It is second only to lung cancer with respect to mortality, with over forty thousand breast cancer deaths in U.S. women being predicted for this year alone. Women with HRN breast cancer comprise 20 percent of all breast cancer cases, and this form of the disease is also more commonly diagnosed in women under age 50.
The article was published online in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
“We do have woman who get biopsies that may not have needed them but the number is low and the risk associated is still quite low”, explained Malik.
Statistics also showed that breast cancer was the third most common type of cancer-related death case for both genders, accounting for 11.1 per cent of all cancer deaths.
According to the Societys Chief Cancer Control Officer, Dr. Richard C. Wender, MD, new research has helped doctors understand the best ways to use mammograms for screening. Researchers reported that obesity could be the main cause of breast cancer in black women as it is linked with increase of estrogen-receptor positive breast cancers.
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Boffetta then suggests, “Possible solutions require complex interventions targeted at reducing risk factors, improving screening, and providing access to effective treatment”. Usually if a male’s breast is medium-sized or big it is most likely fat, but sometimes men can develop real breast gland tissue because they take certain medicines or have abnormal hormone levels.
