Wilmington Journal: Blacks and Cancer

By CASH MICHAELS
The Wilmington Journal
Originally posted 8/20/2007

African-American women are 39 percent more likely to die of breast cancer than white women, even when both are diagnosed with the same stage of the deadly disease, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York reported this week.

Why such a pronounced racial disparity in breast cancer mortality rates exists is not clear, but solving that medical mystery will certainly be one of the many challenges researchers at the UNC –Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center will undertake in the coming years. Click here to read more....