Why Are Black Women Less Likely To Stick With A Breast Cancer Follow-up Treatment?
“Breast cancer is less common in black women, yet they’re about 40 percent more likely to die from it than white women. One reason for this is that black women more often have advanced cancer once they do get in to treatment, partially because they are less likely to have health insurance or to get screening mammograms. Another reason, a new study suggests, may be black women are less consistent with follow-through with the years-long course of daily endocrine therapy prescribed for certain common types of breast cancer.”