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Why are African American women more likely to die from breast cancer?

by , Harvard Medical Research: Breast Cancer on Jul 17, 2007

Researchers propose that the excess mortality occurs partly because black women are more likely than white women to develop breast cancer before menopause, when surgery to remove the tumor may pose a higher risk of stimulating cancer growth.



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