Fighting Breast & Cervical Cancers In Black Women

“It won’t happen to me.” This kind of denial is just one of many factors – including reduced access to healthcare and lower education and awareness levels – leading African American women to be less proactive about checkups and screening tests critical to the timely diagnosis of breast and cervical cancers.

But national statistics tell us that this situation is contributing to dire consequences for Black women, who are dying of these malignancies in disproportionate numbers to other populations. While Caucasian women in the United States are diagnosed more frequently with breast cancer than any other group over the age of 40, data compiled from the SEER database indicates that African American women are approximately 1.4 times more likely to die from the disease. Cervical cancer also strikes African American women disproportionately, compared to Caucasians, making them twice as likely to die from the disease.

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source: BlackDoctor.org