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  • As it turns out, marketing drugs directly to African Americans backfires for pharmaceutical companies when it turns out that said drugs cause heart attacks.
  • Racism has little to do with why black women are less likely to get mammograms (and more likely to die from breast cancer. I'm not sure why this matters.
  • Denial may have something to do with why black women don't get mammograms. It sure has a lot to do with black men and prostate cancer. They are known to highly underestimate the likelihood that a biopsy will result in a prostate cancer diagnosis.
  • Got polycystic ovary syndrome? I bet you have fibroids, too.

    • Jun 10, 2007 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 1 Response
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    No. 1 · daria

    So what you're saying is that black people need to become more comfortable with their bodies in order to take away the stigma of these diseases?

    Makes a lot of sense.

    Posted: Jun 10, 2007 at 10:19 pm
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