University of Tennessee: Researcher Awarded $1.5 Million to Continue Career-Long Research of Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer Outcomes
February 24, 2024
February 24, 2024
MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Feb. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center issued the following news:
In 2012, Shelley White-Means, PhD, read a study from the Sinai Urban Health Institute that reported Memphis had the largest disparity in deaths from breast cancer for Black women versus white women of any of the 25 largest cities in the United States. She had recently lost her mother to breast cancer, and she wanted to know why Black women, like her mom, were more lik . . .
In 2012, Shelley White-Means, PhD, read a study from the Sinai Urban Health Institute that reported Memphis had the largest disparity in deaths from breast cancer for Black women versus white women of any of the 25 largest cities in the United States. She had recently lost her mother to breast cancer, and she wanted to know why Black women, like her mom, were more lik . . .