Studies from Georgetown University, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center provide new data on breast cancer risk factors

Scientists discuss in "Behavioral risk factors among Black and White women newly diagnosed with breast cancer" new findings in breast cancer. In this recent report, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To determine the rates of three behavioral risk factors (depression symptoms, smoking, and drinking) among women newly diagnosed with breast cancer and to examine if the rates under investigation differed between Black and White women. Subjects were 147 women (47% Black, 53% White) newly diagnosed with breast cancer and participating in an epidemiologic interview study conducted at two metropolitan area cancer centers in the same city. The epidemiologic interview included...

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