Young black women less likely to survive breast cancer

Young black women in the UK diagnosed with breast cancer aged 40 or younger have poorer overall survival than white women in the same age group. Young black women in the UK diagnosed with breast cancer aged 40 or younger have poorer overall survival than white women in the same age group.

23 October 2013

• Health & Medicine

Raising awareness of cancer among black and minority ethnic communities

Sir Trevor Macdonald is calling on Britain's cancer community to help raise levels of awareness about the disease that cuts a swathe through the country's Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities as much as it hits the rest of the population. Sir Trevor Macdonald is calling on Britain's cancer community to help raise levels of awareness about the disease that cuts a swathe through the country's Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities as much as it hits the rest of the population.

7 July 2008

• Health & Medicine

Black women get breast cancer two decades earlier than white women

Black British women in Hackney, East London, are diagnosed with breast cancer 21 years younger than white British women, according to a Cancer Research UK study published online in the British Journal of Cancer. Black British women in Hackney, East London, are diagnosed with breast cancer 21 years younger than white British women, according to a Cancer Research UK study published online in the British Journal of Cancer.

16 January 2008