Breast Cancer Rates Questioned in Latina Population

“Breast cancer is an understudied and poorly understood disease in Hispanic/Latina populations in the U.S., and breast cancer appears to be presenting at an earlier age in this population, on average 10 years younger when compared to Caucasian women. The findings were presented today by researchers from the Arizona Cancer Center and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at the Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Symposium in Torrance, CA.

“We need to understand the magnitude and profile of breast cancer in our Latina population in the U.S.,” according to Elena Martinez, Ph.D., of the Arizona Cancer Center. “If we do not make the effort to understand breast cancer as this population ages and adopts lifestyles common to the U.S., we could be looking at a major public health problem and higher burden of disease.”"

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