While white women of European descent are slightly more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, women of African descent are more likely to die from their disease. Black women have a 41 percent higher death rate from breast cancer compared to white women.

Time from medical consultation to the initiation of treatment was longer than three months for 22.4% for black women compared with14.3% of white women. Black women have a 40 percent breast cancer mortality rate - the highest of any U.S. racial or ethnic group.

Indigenous women are 7 percent more likely to get

breast cancer and 10 percent

more likely to die from it than non-Hispanic white women.

Black women are two times more likely to be diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer, a subtype of the disease that is more aggressive and associated with a higher mortality rate

The mortality rate for Black women diagnosed with breast cancer is 42% higher than the comparable rate for white women.

Breast cancer is the most common cause of death in Black and Latina women between the ages

of 45 and 60 years old.