Link between race, cancer gene possible
By VIRGINIA ANDERSON
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Breast cancer tumors in African-American women are more aggressive than tumors in white women, and new evidence suggests that could be due to racial differences in a key cancer gene, according to a study published today in the journal Cancer.
The study, conducted at Yale University School of Medicine, possibly moves forward previous studies that have examined why African-American women die of breast cancer at a rate one-third higher than white women.
“Race” is generally used as a substitute for “class.” The “poor and the black” is a common political phrase based on the assumption that all “blacks” are poor. Many special programs are available only to the poorest “white” but to any alleged memeber of the official “minorities,” regardless of income or other privileges.