According to a CDC report, Black women have higher death rates from cancer than any other group. With the lowest five-year survival rate, they are more likely than White people to be diagnosed with female breast,

A new study from the Journal Of Clinical Oncology highlights that disparities in extended treatments, economic burdens, and healthcare access are behind the rising breast cancer death rates among Black women.

About 137 women per 100,000 Washington residents were diagnosed with breast cancer between 2017 and 2021, the ninth-highest rate in the nation. But only 64% of the state’s women ages 40 and older received mammograms from 2021 to 2022, putting Washington at the 10th-lowest screening rate in the country.

Breast cancer remains the second-most common cancer and the second-leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States. While overall breast cancer mortality has declined by 42 percent over the last three decades,

Americans have benefited from huge leaps in breast cancer treatment over the last two decades and while death rates from breast cancer have fallen, rates of new diagnoses among younger women are increasing according to a new study.