Ovarian cancer is aggressive in black women, and not much is known about
the disease. Even less is known how it affects black women. Dr.
Therese Dolecek of University of Illinois at Chicago is looking to
change that. Less than 300 black women have ever been part of an
ovarian cancer study.
There will be 21,000 cases of ovarian cancer in the US this year with 15,000 deaths. Dolecek is conducting a 5 year study to study risk factors which will end in 2015.
“We want to see if the risk factors for African American women are equivalent to those observed in white women,” Dolecek said. “We know there are differences in survival even if you control for predictors, such as tumor stage and patient age.”
Since symptoms of ovarian can be easily mistaken for other things. Screening test do not exist for ovarian cancer.
For the full article, visit http://thegrio.com/2011/09/28/ovarian-cancer-still-a-mystery-especially-for-black-women/.
There will be 21,000 cases of ovarian cancer in the US this year with 15,000 deaths. Dolecek is conducting a 5 year study to study risk factors which will end in 2015.
“We want to see if the risk factors for African American women are equivalent to those observed in white women,” Dolecek said. “We know there are differences in survival even if you control for predictors, such as tumor stage and patient age.”
Since symptoms of ovarian can be easily mistaken for other things. Screening test do not exist for ovarian cancer.
For the full article, visit http://thegrio.com/2011/09/28/ovarian-cancer-still-a-mystery-especially-for-black-women/.
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