Black Women Most At Risk For Stage 4 Breast Cancer

The National Cancer Institute release a study that state black women have been diagnosed with the highest rate of breast cancer triple negative " stage four.  

This , new "nationwide" data may help doctors identify which patients are most at risk ... and which treatments are best. For the first time, researchers examined the four major types of breast cancer, "including" triple negative … then determined how often ethnicity and race, poverty levels, age, and other factors played a role.  

“This is just such a complex disease. We used to think of breast cancer as you were before or after menopause. It really is more about the biology of the cancer,” says Dr. Joanne Mortimer of City of Hope.

The research found non-Hispanic blacks had a higher rate of triple negative breast cancer and late stage disease than other racial groups.

“What kind of treatments are involved?” 

“So, usually, chemotherapy is a major component of it.”

The study also looked at other cancers and found lung, colorectal, and prostate cancers are down, but incidence of thyroid, kidney, and liver cancers are up for both men and women.

These findings newly released may be a surprise to others, but I find this news that should  not surprise anyone in our community that ethnicity and race, poverty levels, age, and other factors played a role.  When you have several family members who have died from cancer late stage

• Non Hispanic, Black women
• Healthcare finding out diagnosis late stage/Health Education knowing how to examine breast /Health prevention  getting annual cancer check up black women are usually more obese and have more breast density 
• Factors such as heredity/ reconstructive choices 

tTriple negative is one of four subtypes of breast cancer, and a new report emphasizes how important it is for doctors to identify the risks and treatments for each. For example, triple negative cancers do not respond to certain hormonal therapies that can help other women.

The nationwide data -- published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and co-authored by the American Association of Central Cancer Registries, the American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health -- may help doctors identify which patients are at most risk for each type of breast cancer and which treatments may be most effective.

The data also also confirmed the previous finding that non-Hispanic white women are more likely to develop HR+/HER2- breast cancer, the least aggressive subtype, than women of other races and ethnicities. The study found that rates of HR+/HER2- breast cancer increased with increasing levels of poverty for every racial and ethnic group.

References

http://www.ktvn.com/story/28653901/improved-breast-cancer-screening
 ttp://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/diagnosis/staging#stage0