Why Hispanic Breast Cancer Patients Fare Worse

I learned today that while Hispanic women don’t have the highest incidence of breast cancer, they do fare worse after diagnosis than many other women. Here’s why.

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One Response to “Why Hispanic Breast Cancer Patients Fare Worse”

  1. Cancionero says:

    Just came across your site. We (Hispanics) have a cultural tendency to delay diagnosis for anything that pains us. We’d go to the web but you wouldn’t imagine how little information is available online in Spanish about cancer. I just learned of an major effort the Lance Armstrong Foundation launched to help bridge the information gap and am trying to do my part to make sure the word is spread… http://livestrong.org/espanol

    Thanks for sharing your strength and hope.

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