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Rep Power: 35 | Black Women Fare Worse Than Whites With Breast Cancer "Another biological factor is vitamin D, which is formed by sunlight in our skin. Black skin contains more melanin, which blocks the sunlight, and studies show that black women have about half the amount of vitamin D in their bloodstream. Dr. Walter Willette of Harvard's School of Public Health said, "We have done some analyses comparing African-American men and women, looking a various nutrients in the blood, and various hormones. We don't find any substantial difference, except for vitamin D. Another factor behind the disparity in breast cancer is that when research studies are conducted, typically only about 5 percent of the subjects are black. "Until we can get more minorities in the clinical trials, it is going to be hard to find treatments to work well for them," said breast surgeon Dr. Susan Troyan of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center." SOURCE AND FULL ARTICLE: http://www.thebostonchannel.com/heal...38/detail.html
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