Breast cancer death rates among black women not decreasing acros...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Wed, 02/27/2008 - 23:00

A new study from the American Cancer Society finds that while breast cancer death rates are decreasing for white women in every US state, for African American women, death rates are either flat or rising in at least half the states.

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