Prevent Cancer Foundation: Congressional Families Program Learns Firsthand About Equal Hope in Chicago
October 31, 2024
October 31, 2024
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Oct. 31 -- The Prevent Cancer Foundation issued the following news on Oct. 30, 2024:
One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetimes. Though Black women are less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, they are about 40% more likely to die of the disease./1
That disparity was once even starker in Chicago. From 2005-2007, Black women in Chicago had a 62% higher death rate for breast cancer than white women, even though . . .
One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetimes. Though Black women are less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, they are about 40% more likely to die of the disease./1
That disparity was once even starker in Chicago. From 2005-2007, Black women in Chicago had a 62% higher death rate for breast cancer than white women, even though . . .