Breast Cancer Rates On The Rise In Black Women, And More Health News This Week

One Gap That's Closing Between Black Women And Whites Isn't Anything To Cheer About
Photo Essay From Hospital. Digital Mammography. Mammography Unit Of The Gustave Roussy Institute, In The French Region Of Ile De France. Doctor. (Photo By BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images)
Photo Essay From Hospital. Digital Mammography. Mammography Unit Of The Gustave Roussy Institute, In The French Region Of Ile De France. Doctor. (Photo By BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images)

An estimated 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 39,620 breast cancer deaths are expected to occur among U.S. women in 2013. And according to a report released this week by the American Cancer Society, an increasing number of them will be black women.

Read on to see just how much breast cancer incidence rates are converging among white and African-American women, plus more notes on the black health chart this week.

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