New Health Study Shows Elevated Cancer Risk in African Americans
If you're a woman, you have one in eight chances of getting cancer, and if you're a man you have one in 100. It isn't just rampant in the United States; people everywhere are affected by the problems of breast cancer. Hundreds of thousands of people are affected by the disease each year. Hundreds of millions are spent on research and though advancements have been made, breast cancer continues to be one of the major diseases of our generation. One of the research projects that has been spawned by this disease was led by Hala Nsouli-Maktabi. According to the study, not only were African American women prone to getting a more aggressive type of breast cancer, they were also more likely to get it a second time.
The chances of getting breast cancer used to be thought of by most people as one in a million. Whether it has been sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy living or carcinogens present in all types of common household and food products, incidents of the disease have risen recent in years. Though cancer has been around for a while, the information on the causes of cancer and how it chooses its victims is still relatively unclear considering the amount of research that has been put into it. The goal of research studies like that conducted by Doctor Nsouli–Maktabi has been to improve the understanding that is still vague to the general human population. The findings of such studies as these help not only cure; rather more importantly they help provide data that could potentially prevent the ravages of this disease.
Doctor Nsouli–Maktabi along with his team studied data on women diagnosed with the disease in age groups older than 19. There were 415,664 Caucasian women studied, while there were also 39,887 African American women studied. It was evident from the study that the risk of African American women contracting the disease a second time was four percent. According to him and his team, the research encouraged the monitoring of patients for a much longer time after the first instance of the disease.
Overall, the findings of the research were beneficial in proving that African American women had a greater chance of getting breast cancer a second time around. It also showed that their chances of getting a more aggressive version of the disease were higher. This is why you should always take advantage of your Indiana health insurance plan's screening coverage test like mammogram. It ensures early detection which in turn paves the way for early treatment and higher chance of recovery.
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