Help with ethnicity and breast cancer research

To help with research into ethnicity and breast cancer, a selection of ethnically diverse healthy women and breast cancer patients, aged 25 and over, are needed to join the Ethnicity and Breast Cancer Patient and Public Involvement group.

Breast cancer is an important health problem for all women in the UK. It is known know that women from the largest ethnic minority groups (Indian, Pakistani, Black African and Black Caribbean) are less likely to get breast cancer compared to white women, but more likely to have more advanced and aggressive types of breast cancer. The three main aims of this research are to understand why:  

• Women from ethnic minority groups are less likely to get breast cancer;  
• Ethnic minority women tend to have more advanced breast cancer when they are diagnosed;
• Ethnic minority women with breast cancer tend to have more aggressive types of disease compared to white women.

For more information see:
https://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/research/the-associations-of-ethnicity-and-breast-cancer

Email: oxfordcancerppi@medsci.ox.ac.uk