Aggressive breast cancer hits Latinas
Tagged: latinaPosted on: February 5th, 2007“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.”
Curation from Tomás
Filed Under: Health, Top Stories
Comments
