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News: Black Women Are More Likely to Die of Uterine Cancer

A recent five-year analysis of 120,000 cases of uterine cancer found that black women are 1.5 times more likely to die of the disease than white women.

Exactly why there are racial differences is hard to say. Is it because African Americans tend to have a lower socioeconomic status than white Americans, or could it be something genetic? Whatever the cause, there are important racial differences in the risk for several diseases.
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News: Black Women Are More Likely to Die of Uterine Cancer
A recent five-year analysis of 120,000 cases of uterine cancer found that black women are 1.5 times more likely to die of the disease than white women.

Exactly why there are racial differences is hard to say. Is it because African Americans tend to have a lower socioeconomic status than white Americans, or could it be something genetic? Whatever the cause, there are important racial differences in the risk for several diseases.
Nicholas English
Content Manager of About.com Health
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