23rd Annual Sister to Sister Fitness Festival led by Executive Director Sylvia Powers. This year’s theme was ‘Keeping In Step with Change.’ The festival...
By Marshelle SandersChicago Defender One thing that stood out the most during the Democratic National Convention was Kamala Harris’s speech about her mother. It...
By Taylyn Harmon New medical treatments often come with great promise, but sometimes that promise doesn’t fully extend to Black Americans. “Populations of humans...
By Jason HendersonBDO Staff Writer Congratulations on your journey as a breast cancer survivor! Your health is precious, and recent research highlights the importance...
New evidence suggests chemotherapy may be harmful to breast cancer patients. Thirty percent of breast cancer patients get chemotherapy. These medicines alter the immune...
The “Triple” in Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) refers to Estrogen and Progesterone (hormones) and Her2 (an epidermal growth factor). This means that they...
African American women with nonmetastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) have a significantly higher risk for breast cancer mortality versus White patients, according to a...
By BREANNA REEVES For women in the U.S., breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer deaths. According...