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Native American males and females are the only racial group that has not seen a decrease in breast cancer mortality rate. Black women are 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than their white counterparts, although less Black women are diagnosed with the disease as white women. Women under 50 years of age are twice as likely to die than women age 50 and over. Inconsistencies in care for all racial groups have persisted since 2011. Rebeca L. Siegel, a cancer epidemiologist and Senior Scientific Director of Surveillance Research at the American Cancer Society (ACS) and senior author of the 2022 American Cancer Society’s Breast Cancer Statistics report stresses, “it is time for health systems to take a hard look at how they are caring differently for Black women.”

Archelle BloodworthCourtesy of The Brown Report Newspaper (Photo) Garfield Heights, OH. - October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about the impact of breast cancer. Archelle Bloodworth wants women to remember that October promotes that every woman has access to the health screenings and the support she deserves.