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CDC: Breast cancer death rate for black women higher than in any other group
40 percent more likely to die than white women
Updated: Wednesday, 14 Nov 2012, 5:01 PM EST
Published : Wednesday, 14 Nov 2012, 4:14 PM EST
ATLANTA (AP) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says black women are 40 percent more likely to die of breast cancer than white women are.
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among American women, but the CDC's Ileana Arias says black women have "unacceptably high" death rates. She says they have the "highest death rates from breast cancer among all racial and ethnic groups."
Arias says many lives could be saved each year with proper screening and treatment, stressing the importance of educating black women to coverage provided by the new health care law, including mammograms without co-pays in many health plans.
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