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Last year, Christina Mackey, then 33, was in her shower performing a breast examination when she felt a gumball sized lump. She underwent a diagnostic mammogram and learned some shocking news. “The nurse practitioner said, ‘I’m so sorry, but you do have cancer,’” Mackey, 34, of Houston, tells TODAY.com. “I blinked once and I said, ‘What’s the plan?’” Mackey had stage 3 triple negative breast cancer, an aggressive type of cancer that does not have as many targeted therapies to address it.
But also, Black women are getting breast cancers at a younger age.” Younger Black women don’t even have the option for their cancers to be seen during routine screening. Treatment options vary too, but it’s unclear whether patients choose not to undergo mastectomies or receive all the treatment options or if doctors are not offering them. “I suspect it’s a combination of all of the above, but the data is not very clear,” Oppong explains.
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