System overhaul key to reducing breast cancer deaths for black women

In Chicago, massive changes to the city’s healthcare system are required for reducing deaths from breast cancer, according to a special task force. African American women there are dying from breast cancer at a rate 68% higher than white women and experts point to a segregated healthcare system as the main cause. Underserved women in the city do not have access to high-quality screening, detection or treatment, causing a high rate of mortality. To improve survival rates, the panel recommends creating a universal, transparent quality-control system for screening and detecting breast cancer. Please click here for more.