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Re: Black-White Breast Cancer Incidence Trends: Effects of Ethnicity.

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Cancer statistics for African Americans, 2019

TL;DR: Overall cancer death rates declined faster in blacks than whites among both males and females, largely driven by greater declines for cancers of the lung, colorectum, and prostate, and the black‐white cancer disparity has been nearly eliminated in men <50 years and women ≥70 years.
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Hair dye and chemical straightener use and breast cancer risk in a large US population of black and white women

TL;DR: A higher breast cancer risk associated with any straightener use and personal use of permanent dye, especially among black women is observed, suggesting that chemicals in hair products may play a role in breast carcinogenesis.
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Hypertensive diseases of pregnancy and risk of breast cancer in the Black Women’s Health Study

TL;DR: A suggestive inverse association with ER– breast cancer may reflect an anti-tumorigenic hormone profile in HDOP, but those results require confirmation in other studies.
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Breast cancer statistics, 2017, racial disparity in mortality by state.

TL;DR: An overview of female breast cancer statistics in the United States, including data on incidence, mortality, survival, and screening, suggests improving access to care for all populations could eliminate the racial disparity in breast cancer mortality and accelerate the reduction in deaths nationwide.
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Breast cancer statistics, 2015: Convergence of incidence rates between black and white women

TL;DR: An overview of female breast cancer statistics in the United States, including data on incidence, mortality, survival, and screening is provided, in view of the increasing trends in breast cancer incidence rates in black women.
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Black–White Breast Cancer Incidence Trends: Effects of Ethnicity

TL;DR: Assessment of race- and ethnicity-specific breast cancer trends using the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) 13 Registries Database confirmed merging of age-standardized incidence rates for blacks and whites circa 2012, but not for non- Hispanic black (NHB) and non-Hispanic white (NHW) women.
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