Breast cancer risk of death greater among black Americans due to uninsured rates

black woman breast cancer risk

This demographic has less coverage than the average woman in the United States, threatening their health. Results of a newly released study show that black woman have a greater chance of death due to their breast cancer risk as they are less likely to have adequate health insurance coverage. The report on the study was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Before women were routinely screened and effectively treated for breast cancer, black and white women suffered the same risk. Before the early 1980s, neither systems of diagnoses nor…

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