A new report by the American Cancer Society indicates that breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among Black women. The news is one of the key findings in Cancer Statistics for African American/Black People 2022.

Black women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer early when compared with Caucasian women, and unfortunately have three times the morality rate.

“We need to make sure that African American women have access to the downstream care — better surgery, better radiation oncology, better medical oncology care — in order to overcome this disparity and give them just as good of an outcome as everybody else in our country,” says Donald Northfelt, M.D. an oncologist at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and CBBC supporter and educational speaker.