[neverdem]

With all the political BS about healthcare, especially all the studies implying overt or latent racism or low socioeconomic status explaining poorer healthcare outcomes among minorities, here's a straight forward explanation, and the admin mod wanted to make it chat.

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[hocndoc]

This is news, not chat.

The time line for research into tamoxifen and the estrogen agonists paralleled the availability of mammograms. So much for the discrimination angle.

The significant - and telling - part of this story,besides that ratio of ER+/ER- tumors is that black women are diagnosed earlier (before screening mammograms are routine) and with more aggressive tumors (which definitely does not point to disparities in access or the care and concern of their doctors).

Although I wonder how much help it will actually be for black women. Perhaps we need more and earlier screening for those at risk and more aggressive, surgical and radiation therapy for those women if our usual chemo of estrogen agonists won’t work.

And to discourage that first abortion in these women? The protective effect of an early first full term pregnancy is a health policy matter.