Surprising news on women's beliefs about breast cancer

File this article under: what you don't know can be fatal.

• Only 15 percent of women who get Breast cancer have a family history
  
• More young white women than young black women get breast cancer
  
• Mortality rates for black women are 33% higher
  
• Black women just like Ashkenazi Jews have a higher rate of early onset breast cancer. Those with the gene have an 87 percent chance of getting breast cancer

The article sites the American Cancer Society's Cancer Facts & Figures as the promary source. It speaks to the social, racial, econcomic and geographical realities of cancer.