Black women have higher risk of death from all types of breast cancer, study finds

Black women are about 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than White women, but new research is showing this applies to all forms of the disease — and examines why. 

In the study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology Tuesday, researchers found black women are at higher risk of dying from all tumor subtypes of breast cancer, with the size of this disparity varying from 17% to 50% depending on the type of breast cancer.

The research used data from 18 studies that were published between 2009 and 2022, analyzing a total of 228,885 breast cancer cases, 34,262 of which were in Black women.