Racial discrimination tied to breast cancer risk

Reuters ^ | 07/05/07 | staff

[Kid Shelleen]

Black women who feel they've been victims of racial discrimination are more likely than their peers to develop breast cancer, a large study suggests. The study, which followed 59,000 African-American women for six years, found that those who reported more incidents of racial discrimination had a higher risk of breast cancer

[Wombat101]

*Laughing*

Someone spent money to study this?

*Suddenly sad*

I’ll bet it was taxpayer money, too.

[Jeff Chandler]

I’m confused.

[SolidWood]

Greatest nonsense I have ever read. DNC press releases come quite close though...

[stm]

What a load of poverty pimp bullshit. Did these women ever get a free mammogram, or were they crying discrimination at that too?

[Uncle Hal]

There can be no scientific basis for this study. It makes no sense.

[jdm]

Black women who feel they've been victims...

There's your two keywords. It's not what is; it's what they f...e...e...l.

[DJ MacWoW]

Stress and anger, whether from real or imagined causes, will make you sick. No one needed to waste money on a study for that.

[headstamp]

What a pantload.

[endthematrix]

Oh boy!

[stm]

When are they going to do a study involving white women who were victims of affirmative action or reverse discrimination? Bet that one never sees the light of day.

[ishabibble]

>>It’s possible that racial discrimination plays some role, according to the researchers, led by Dr. Teletia R. Taylor of Howard University in Washington, D.C<<

YOU GO GIRL! BET YOU GOT A LEXUS AND A CONDO!

[scan58]

[shaking head] Don’t these guys have anything better to study? What could possibly be the basis for this? I wonder how many of these black women that got breast cancer ever felt lonely? I wonder how many of them had/never had a birthday party? I wonder how many of them ever went a whole day w/o brushing their teeth?
Seems like they could base this study on anything and come up with an answer. Just more liberal crapola thrown out there to digest.

[pepperdog]

Not bothering to read the article, but I do believe constant, unrelenting anger has a very, very detrimental effect of the health of the angry person. I have found many liberals to be angry about almost every aspect of their lives. The liberal media is a good example, they can take the most mundane thing and make it a big, bad problem that should cause anger in every “caring” person.

It’s a good thing to be thankful to wake up every day and enjoy the miracle of life.

[mtbopfuyn]

It’s their own fault for reporting such incidences.

[nmh]

Sad!

Totally illogical.

[vetsvette]

I have it on good authority that 100% of all people that start out on mothers milk eventually die, but I won’t be risking the label of misogynist by repeating that information.

[MeanWestTexan]

In other words:

Stupid people: (1) tend to feel discriminated against and (2) are too stupid to go to doctors for routine check-ups.

[cjohnson1]

"When are they going to do a study involving white women who were victims of affirmative action or reverse discrimination? Bet that one never sees the light of day." Or a cent of taxpayer $$... I often wonder... what would happen if we were to have... oh... say... A Miss White America Pageant.... or... maybe a United White Person College Fund.... or even White History Month.... I mean, I’m not prejudice... I just think the pendulum has swung so far now in the other direction that it’s now a crime to be white... or Christian... or not gay....

[N3WBI3]

Sadly the average person does not realize that correlation of a study does *not* indicate causation of its elements.