Sentences with phrase «breast cancer death rates»

Now, after studies have found that such exams do not reduce breast cancer death rates and actually increase the rate of unnecessary biopsies, many experts are recommending a more relaxed approach known as «breast awareness.»

Some good news in the war on breast cancer: «From 1989 to 2015, breast cancer death rates decreased by 39 %, which translates to 322,600 averted breast cancer deaths in the United States,» according to a new report published by the American Cancer Society.

Breast cancer death rate plunges nearly 40 %.

Non-Hispanic black (NHB) women «continued to have higher breast cancer death rates than [non-Hispanic white] women, with rates 39 % higher in NHB women in 2015, although the disparity has ceased to widen since 2011.»

According to National Cancer Institute data, since mammography screening became widespread in the mid-1980s, the U.S. breast cancer death rate has dropped 35 percent.

To give you some perspective, the breast cancer death rate increased 0.4 percent between 1975 and 1989, so this is a huge jump.

That being said, although the gap has closed a bit, breast cancer death rates are in no way the same for black women and white women: In 2015, the breast cancer death rate was 39 percent higher for black women than white women, whereas in 2011 that number was 41 percent.

Despite the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force's 2009 recommendation that women start mammograms at age 50 (based on research suggesting there is a clearer benefit for older women), there's still good reason to go in at 40: A 2010 study of about 600,000 women in their 40s found that receiving mammos reduced their breast cancer death rate by 29 percent.

A new report released by the American Cancer Society has some good news for women everywhere: Between 1989 and 2015, the breast cancer death rate dropped nearly 40 percent, preventing 322,600 deaths.

Morbidly obese women have breast cancer death rates 3 times higher than those that are very lean.