Christina Kashiwada was traveling for work during the summer of 2018 when she noticed a small, itchy lump in her left breast.

In the US, black women have a higher risk of dying from any type of breast cancer than white women – a new study has found. According to the researchers, the increased survival risk for Black women ranges from 17 to 50 per cent,

Black women are more likely than white women to die from even the most treatable types of breast cancer, a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found.