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Cosmopolitan

| November 01, 2006 | Crain, Esther | COPYRIGHT 2006 Hearst Communications, reprinted with permission of Hearst. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Your ethnic background can determine your odds.

Researchers have long been puzzled as to why premenopausal African-American women have a lower incidence of breast cancer than do women of other ethnicities and age-groups, yet their death rate from the disease in this age range is 77 percent higher. A new study may explain things: Black women from their early 20s to late 40s are twice as likely to get a more aggressive form of breast cancer. ...

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