Examining Breast Cancer Screening Behavior Among Southern Black Women After the 2009 US Preventive Services Task Force Mammography Guideline Revisions

Abstract

Background-Updated United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and American Cancer Society mammography screening recommendations push for increased age of initiation and lengthened breast cancer screening intervals. These changes have implications for the reduction of breast cancer mortality in Black women. The purpose of this study was to examine breast cancer screening behavior in a cohort of Southern Black women after the release of the 2009 USPSTF recommendations.

Linking Structural Racism and Discrimination and Breast Cancer Outcomes: A Social Genomics Approach

“…The significant improvements in screening, diagnosis, and treatment of breast cancer have not translated into better clinical outcomes for Black women, [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] who continue to have up to a 40% higher mortality rate from breast cancer compared with their White counterparts. 13,14 This racial disparity in mortality has been partially attributed to racial differences in stage of presentation, 15,16 molecular subtype, [17][18][19] and disparities in treatment.…”