Age of breast cancer screening should be reduced to address health disparities: Petition

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Studies have shown BlackWomen are disproportionally affected by early-onset forms of BreastCancer. – via healthing_ca cancersociety loveandnudes_ CBCN StageZeroCollection LoveAndNudes LowerTheScreeningAge

of 198,278 women aged 40 to 84 from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania also found that Black women had 2.7 times higher risk of developing triple-negative breast cancer.which found that in the U.S., Black women have a 40 per cent higher mortality rate from breast cancer but a four per cent lower incidence rate of developing the cancer.

“The incidence of early onset breast cancer over the past 20 years has been on the increase with well documented evidence and literature,” the statement reads. “Beyond the known racial inequities and improvements in knowledge for genetic risk, there are many factors still to be determined as to why we are seeing a rise in early onset breast cancer

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