Minority Health and Health Equity Archive
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Item Death Rate Higher in Minorities with Acute Leukemia(2011) AACR, Communications StaffBlacks and Hispanics have fewer cases of acute leukemia compared to whites but they die at a substantially higher rate, according to study results presented at the Fourth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held here Sept. 18-21, 2011. From 1998 to 2008, blacks had a 17 percent increased risk of dying from acute leukemia and Hispanics had a 12 percent increased risk compared to white patients. When separated into the two forms of acute leukemia – acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) – the difference in mortality was even more striking. Blacks and Hispanics diagnosed…Item Test Could Detect Breast Cancers Earlier in Young, High-risk African-American Women(2011) AACR, Communications StaffCertain cancer signaling pathways that are activated in aggressive cancer can be detected very early, even in precancerous cells, among young African-American women at high risk for breast cancer. This may allow for earlier detection and prevention of cancer. However, the early activation of these pathways, which are linked to how the body’s cells consume and break down sugar, also raise the concern that certain conditions such as gestational diabetes and prediabetes, where the body produces more sugar, might stimulate precancerous cells promoting a conversion into cancerous cells. Victoria L. Seewaldt, M.D., presented these study results at the Fourth AACR…