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Race For The Cure: Including Black Women In Breast Cancer Research

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Race For The Cure: Including Black Women In Breast Cancer Research

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“As a Black woman, I definitely advocate for other Black women to become a part cancer research, and here is why,” says Bridgette Hempstead, a Black woman with metastatic breast cancer. “Medications are developed and they are mainly developed for middle-aged White women, because the research for Black women is not there.”

Hempstead is founder of Cierra Sisters, a support organization for African-American breast cancer survivors, and knows well the barriers for African-American women to engage in breast cancer research and the consequences if they are not included.

The Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) Project at the Broad Institute and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute are working to break down these barriers and give black women a…

Please read original article Race For The Cure: Including Black Women In Breast Cancer Research posted on Healthy Black Girls on 30 October 2017 | 8:43 pm —

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