A new study is highlighting how breast cancer rates disproportionately affect Black female patients, reinforcing the need for earlier screenings.
April 24, 2023, 5:31 PMSTOCK PHOTO/Getty Imageslast week has shed some new light on how breast cancer rates have been disproportionately affecting Black female patients and pressed for earlier screenings.
"These findings suggest that health policy makers and clinicians could consider an alternative, race and ethnicity-adapted approach in which Black female patients start screening earlier," the authors wrote.Although the researchers noted that there is "currently insufficient data to make specific recommendations for different racial and ethnic populations," they said that race and ethnicity need to be factored in to "optimize the benefit of screening.
For screenings that started at 40, Black females would reach the risk threshold level at 34, white females at 41, Hispanic, American Indian or Alaska Native and Asian or Pacific Islander females at age 43 years, researchers said.
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