USA Today, “Study: Breast cancer is more aggressive in black women”

(October 31, 2007 by Mike Carney)

A new study based on three decades of research shows that black women are diagnosed with cancer at a younger age and tend to have larger tumors than white women.

Dr. Meena Moran, a cancer researcher at Yale, says researchers followed nearly 2,400 women with breast cancer over a 30 year period, making this the most comprehensive study of its kind.

“In terms of outcomes after treatment, African-American patients were found to have a significantly higher rate of relapse in the breast and lymph nodes after breast conservation treatment compared to Caucasians," Moran says in a press release. "We did not, however, find any differences in the rate of cancer spreading to other locations such as the lung, bone, or liver, or in the overall survival in the two groups of patients.”ted earlier.

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