Most breast cancer now detected early
NEW YORK -- More than 90 percent of all U.S. breast cancers are being diagnosed early due largely to public awareness, the American Cancer Society said Friday. Campaigns on the benefits of mammography are paying off, the cancer society said, but there is a downside among the glowing statistics, USA Today reported. Since improvements began to show up a decade ago, black women continue to be diagnosed at later stages. Currently, they have a 30 percent higher death rate from breast cancer than white women. Michael Thun, head of epidemiology for the cancer society, attributes the remarkable progress to more women receiving mammograms, which are the gold standard of early detection of breast cancer. Thun says the difference between white and black women apparently are socioeconomic factors that allow more affluent women to get regular mammograms and better therapies. This year, 211,300 cases of breast cancer, second leading cause of cancer death in American women, will be diagnosed. Lung cancer is first.
NEW YORK -- More than 90 percent of all U.S. breast cancers are being diagnosed early due largely to public awareness, the American Cancer Society said Friday. Campaigns on the benefits of mammography are paying off, the cancer society said, but there is a downside among the glowing statistics, USA Today reported. Since improvements began to show up a decade ago, black women continue to be diagnosed at later stages. Currently, they have a 30 percent higher death rate from breast cancer than white women. Michael Thun, head of epidemiology for the cancer society, attributes the remarkable progress to more women receiving mammograms, which are the gold standard of early detection of breast cancer. Thun says the difference between white and black women apparently are socioeconomic factors that allow more affluent women to get regular mammograms and better therapies. This year, 211,300 cases of breast cancer, second leading cause of cancer death in American women, will be diagnosed. Lung cancer is first.
Charles Mims
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