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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
A caller study from the American Cancer Society connected Tuesday reveals, bosom crab mortality continues to decline. Breast crab mortality rates person dropped by 44% since 1989,
Continuing its 3 decades of decline, according to the caller report.
But the information besides highlighted different concerns.
"More than 300,000 women this twelvemonth volition get a caller invasive bosom crab diagnosis," said Dr. Karen Knudsen, the CEO of the American Cancer Society.
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The caller study besides reveals determination is simply a steeper summation successful incidence for women nether 50, arsenic good arsenic for Asian American and Pacific Islander Women.
Action News spoke with Dr. Knudsen astir the findings.
"When we look astatine trends, determination are inactive immoderate challenges that we did not expect which necessitate attending to," said Dr. Knudsen.
"We've truly got to excavation successful and recognize the why."
The numbers for Native and Alaskan Native women remained unchanged implicit the past 3 decades. The study besides recovered that Black women continued to person a 38% mortality rate, compared to achromatic women - contempt a little incidence rate.
"There's truthful overmuch determination for america to truly recognize astir the quality of bosom crab and however it's manifesting itself successful achromatic women," said Dr. Knudsen. "But besides ensuring that those women person entree to prime crab care."
Women who person dense breasts are besides astatine higher hazard of processing bosom cancer.
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"So important for women with dense breasts to recognize what further oregon antithetic imaging possibly needed to place bosom crab earlier," said Dr. Knudsen.
The American Cancer Society says portion the illness is down among galore groups, bosom crab is the astir communal among U.S. women.
Dr. Knudsen adds there's inactive much to beryllium done successful the fight.
"This is wherefore it's truthful important that each women person entree to the due screening plan," said Dr. Knudsen, "and person their cancers detected astatine the earlier imaginable stages."
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