The mortality rate of black women with breast cancer is much higher than that for white women with the disease, and research is linking the reason to tumor biology.
Black women less likely to get breast cancer, but more likely to die if diagnosed
Monday, November 12, 2007 | 2:00 p.m. CST;
updated 5:00 a.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008
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