Does ones racial or ethnic background affect the risk of breast cancer?
The leading cause of death for African-American women, ages 30-54, is breast cancer. African-American women die at twice the rate of white women. Breast cancer knows no boundaries of races for attacking women with the disease. (National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.) Caucasian, Hawaiian, and African American women have the highest levels of breast cancer risk. Asian/Pacific Islander and Hispanic women have a lower level of risk; their chance of developing breast cancer is less than two-thirds of the risk of Caucasian women. The lowest levels of risk occur among Korean, Native American, and Vietnamese women.
The leading cause of death for African-American women, ages 30-54, is breast cancer. African-American women die at twice the rate of white women. Breast cancer knows no boundaries of races for attacking women with the disease. (National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. Web site) Caucasian, Hawaiian, and African American women have the highest levels of breast cancer risk. Asian/Pacific Islander and Hispanic women have a lower level of risk; their chance of developing breast cancer is less than two-thirds of the risk of Caucasian women. The lowest levels of risk occur among Korean, Native American, and Vietnamese women.
