Black women are more likely to have breast cancer at younger ages and be diagnosed when their cancer is more advanced. – kali9 (Getty Images)
By Kaitlin Sullivan
Sept. 17, 2024, 6:47 PM EDT
Black women are more likely than white women to die from even the most treatable types of breast cancer, a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found.
The findings, experts say, underscore that it’s racial disparities, not biology, driving the biggest differences in death rates between Black and white women. While Black women and white women are diagnosed with breast cancer at similar rates, Black women are 40% more likely to die from the disease.
“Within health care there was this notion that an important contributor to disparities was that Black women have higher rates of triple-negative,” which is a particularly aggressive type of breast cancer, said lead author Erica Warner, a cancer epidemiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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