This is such a harmful breast cancer diseases and really very crazy and dangers and effected in your health and personality and I know at least 25% of black women presents highly breast cancer refuse the chemotherapy and emission treatment that might put aside their life.

“We found in this study on locally advanced breast cancer, mainly done in black women, that almost a quarter of the patients [refused] chemotherapy and radiation therapy that are the standard of care for stage 3 breast cancer,” said lead researcher Dr. Monica Rizzo.

Rizzo said. “We looked at martial status, as well as religious background, of those women and, unfortunately, we were not able to find any clear identifier,”

Things that may be associated with their refusal of treatment are fear of the medical system and poverty, which makes it difficult to get to the hospital and get time off work for treatment, Rizzo said.

Rizzo said. “Educate more women and dispel some fears that they can have about cancer and cancer treatment, and encourage them to have yearly mammograms to catch cancers at an earlier stage, when the cancer is more curable,”

“This finding, that a large proportion of these women were not getting chemotherapy or radiation, is worrisome,” Kimmick said.

“I think it’s a social and cultural thing,” Kimmick said. “We have to educate and be sensitive to cultural issues, too. Some of the women we take care of think God is going to take care of them, so they don’t pursue their treatment,” she said. “Sometimes that’s how they deal with crisis.”

Kimmick said. “Disparities are not just fixed by telling people what they need to do — you have to help them do it,” she said.

“I find the study curious at best,” Brenner said. “There seems to be very little new in it. The researchers seem to have worked around the edges of the most important questions for black women with stage 3 breast cancer — the need for better and more effective treatments, and the need to understand how failure to complete treatment, which is an issue that reaches far beyond the black community, affects outcomes,” she said. Via