Black women are underrepresented in cancer clinical trials due to a long history of medical mistrust and implicit bias, which can lead to less research overall to help understand Black women’s high breast cancer mortality rates.
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Breast Cancer Kills Black Women More. Will Trump Make it Worse?
Black women are 38% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, and the Trump administration’s defunding of grants that study breast cancer in Black women could exacerbate this disparity.