https://www.cancer.org/.../2018/cancer-facts-and-figures-2018.pdf
About 609,640
Americans are expected to die of cancer in 2018 (Table 1, page 4), which translates to about 1,670 deaths per day. Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the US, exceeded only by heart disease. Table 3 (page 6) provides estimated cancer deaths by state in 2018.
Hadiyah-Nicole Green is an African-American medical physicist known for her part in the development of a process that has the potential to help in the evolution of a novel cancer treatment using laser-activated nanoparticles. She is one of 66 black women to earn a Ph.D. in physics in the United States between 1973 and 2012, and is the second black woman and the fourth black person ever to earn a doctoral degree in physics from the University of Alabama Birmingham.
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“These differences in treatment for African Americans for lung cancer are more important than the genetic differences by far- staging, surgery and chemo will make a greater impact than genetics…"
https://peoplebeatingcancer.org/african-american-with-lung-cancer/
"According to the ALA report, blacks are less likely to undergo staging. In addition, they are less likely to have surgery (34% vs 61.6% of whites) and are less likely to receive chemotherapy (28.6% vs 46.9%)." ... 10 months ago / Lung Cancer / By David Emerson
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Hadiyah-Nicole Green
Physicist