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Risk Of Dying From Breast Cancer Grows For Black Women
Breast cancer is now as common among black women in the U.S. as it is in white women, a new report found, and black women are more likely to die from the disease. Dr. Otis Brawley, the chief medical and scientific officer for the American Cancer Society, joins Hari Sreenivasan from Atlanta to discuss. (10/31)
With all the recent controversy over how often women should get mammograms, you might not realize that breast cancer is becoming an ever more-survivable disease. But, alas, that鈥檚 not the case among black women in this country. Historically they鈥檝e had the highest risk of dying if they get breast cancer among any ethnic group. And now, data from the American Cancer Society show that African-Americans have nearly caught up with whites over the past three years in their risk of getting breast cancer in the first place. (Knox, 10/30)
