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New report says black women more likely to have deadly breast cancer tumors.
2004 SEP 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have concluded that black women are four times more likely than white women to have a genetic mutation that makes their breast cancer more deadly.
The new study says that while black women are less likely than white women to get breast cancer, they have a greater chance of developing aggressive tumors.
There has been debate about whether breast cancer differences between blacks and whites are due to socio-economic status, healthcare or diet.
Beth A. Jones, an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at Yale, said the study shows that race is clearly a factor in whether a tumor will be aggressive.
Data for the study was collected from 145 black women and 177 white women who had breast cancer. Changes in a tumor suppressor gene called p53 were analyzed. Mutations in the ...
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