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  • Study links neighborhood factors, breast cancer rates in African-American women

    Jun 1, 2018 11:15 am by news@illinois.eduResearch
    Graduate student Brandi Patrice Smith and professor Zeynep Madak-Erdogan in a laboratory

    Racial disparities in breast cancer diagnosis and survival rates may have more to do with women’s living environments than their races, suggests a new meta-analysis of recent research on the topic by, from left, graduate student Brandi Patrice Smith and professor Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, both in the department of food science and human nutrition at the University of Illinois.

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    Neighborhood characteristics such as racial composition and poverty rates are associated with increased risks of late-stage breast cancer diagnoses and higher mortality rates among urban black women, a new analysis of recent breast cancer research shows.

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