How Race Influences Breast Cancer Prognosis

SPECIAL REPORT Monday, December 29, 2014 Breast Cancer Death Rates Higher for Black Women SHARE IT:

Black breast cancer patients are more likely to die than white patients, regardless of the type of cancer, according to a new study. For more than six years, researchers followed nearly 1,700 breast cancer patients who had been treated for luminal A, luminal B, basal-like or HER2-enriched breast cancersubtypes. During that period, about 500 of the patients had died, nearly 300 of them from breast cancer. Black patients were nearly twice as likely as white patients to have died from breast cancer. While they're more likely to have the hard-to-treat triple-negative breast cancer subtype, the lower survival rate among black patients was consistent across all breast cancer subtypes. Learn more about the latest findings on race and breast cancer death risk. Read the full article at EverydayHealth