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Posted: Wednesday August 11th, 2004 18:16 |
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Study Links Cancer Tumors to Black Women
NEW HAVEN, Conn.(AP) - Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have concluded that black women are four times more likely than white women to have a genetic mutation that makes their breast cancer more deadly .
The new study says that while black women are less likely than white women to get breast cancer, they have a greater chance of developing aggressive tumors.
There has been debate about whether breast cancer differences between blacks and whites are due to socio-economic status, health care or diet.
Beth A. Jones, an assistant professor of epidemiology and public health at Yale, said the study shows that race is clearly a factor in whether a tumor will be aggressive.
Data for the study was collected from 145 black women and 177 white women who had breast cancer. Changes in a tumor suppressor gene called p53 were analyzed. Mutations in the p53 gene have been implicated in the onset of about 50 percent of all cancers and are associated with poorer outcomes in breast cancer patients.
The study said that when variables such as income were controlled, African-American women were more likely to have mutations of the p53 gene than white women. Black women also tended to get their tumors at an earlier age than white women.
"The picture now coming down is that the tumors that do occur can be more aggressive in African-Americans," Jones said. "The implications are that early detection is very important, and African-Americans need to be particularly vigilant."
The study, published Monday in the online edition of the journal Cancer, will appear in the journal's Sept. 15 issue.
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Posted: Saturday August 14th, 2004 13:05 |
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 I am not a medical person, but I always seem to have deep misgivings over 'findings' concerning health involving race. Could somebody tell me, if we are all human beings, why should this and that disease favours this or that race?
I could understand that PLACES could influence certain infections. So if one was to say, that if you live in a certain area, you are more prone to such and such, so by that, certain diseases should affect both blacks and whites living in identical areas, in the same country, right?
About diet, lets just say both black and white people, buy rice, but prepare it differently, again why should it be that one race gets one thing and not the other? In other words, we both use the SAME ingredients, but we USE it differently.
This is confusing. 
I suppose my sceptism comes from all the lies, (sorry, 'studies'), that we 'blacks' were suppose to be like, which these same 'experts' at one time 'believed'.
Has anybody got the answer?
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Posted: Sunday August 15th, 2004 16:36 |
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athaba: it's because we are all genetically different people
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Posted: Sunday August 15th, 2004 17:28 |
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Posted: Sunday August 15th, 2004 21:11 |
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@blackmatta,
Thanks blackmatta! Health and race hold deepseated suspicions with me.
Why don't you start that separate thread!?
@Blackarab
True to say, I don't understand fully about genectics - but are we really that different?
If so, then anything could be argued right?
The 'heavy boned' point, (that is we blacks are supposed to be heavier boned, therefore we will find it more difficult to swim!), which I have always rubbished, could be true yes?
We are childlike/animal like/slow witted is also true, right?
Who knows where to draw the line?
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Posted: Thursday September 9th, 2004 14:37 |
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@All: What does income have to do with it?? Could it be that if we don't have enough money we can't afford to have this indentified and treated early enough? Everyones income is controlled to an extent so I'm not sure how that figures in the scheme of things. Or is this some other form of income being referred to
I'm not convinced that race has anything to do with it. I thought it was a socio economic issue, yet "race is clearly a factor in whether a tumor will be aggressive." Is it clear to you? It's not to me.  So where are the results of other races to back that up?
Another thing I noticed is whenever a study is done, the amount of those tested is rarely equal. Why test 177 of one race and 143 of the other? Of course the outcome will be unbalanced. Then when it gets into stats the figures are even more misleading. I notice we're not told the results of the 177 white breat cancer patients, either.
Hmmm some articles are a tease and leave you with more questions than you had before you read it  hmmmmm
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