Health
Do breast screening guidelines overlook Black women? – AuntMinnie
Guidelines that recommend breast screening beginning at age 50 could leave Black women at a disadvantage, according to a September 4 review in the Journal of Breast Imaging. Black women were more likely to develop breast cancers in their 40s — and t…
Two radiologists reviewed breast cancer evidence and found that Black women were more likely than white women to develop breast cancer in their 30s and 40s. What’s more, they more often developed aggressive forms of the disease.
This combination of early and aggressive cancer contributed to higher breast cancer mortality rates for Black women, the authors noted. The radiologists worried that starting screening at age 50 could lead to late-stage cancer diagnoses, and worse outcomes, for this rac…
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