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Anietie Aliu, Postgraduate Researcher, Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey

Black women are more likely to die from breast cancer – so why is breast screening attendance still a problem?

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Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women globally. But, in part thanks to screening programmes, over 75% of those diagnosed with breast cancer in England now survive for ten years or more.

However, due to a complex combination of racial disparities in the quality of healthcare patients receive, social factors such as poverty, and differences in tumour biology, Black women in the UK are more likely to die from the disease than women from other ethnicities.

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