Aggressive breast cancer hits Latinas

“An aggressive and hard-to-treat type of breast cancer known to plague young African American women also disproportionately affects Latinas at higher rates, new research in California shows.

Known as triple-negative or “basal-like” carcinomas, these tumors do not respond to the kind of newer, more targeted therapies that have curbed the spread of the disease in many women, lengthening their lives.”

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