“What we learned doing this project is that a lot of people are not represented in breast cancer media.
Although the incidence rate of breast cancer is 4% lower among Black women than White women, Black women are 41% more likely to die from the disease, according to the American Cancer Society.
Breast cancer is less common among Asian women than in other ethnic or racial groups, but the disease is the most commonly diagnosed cancer.
Eshaana Sheth was 27 when she was diagnosed with hormone receptor positive breast cancer in 2019.
Breast cancer is hormone receptor positive when cancer cells have receptors — which the National Cancer Institute describes as binding proteins within the cell — that attach to progesterone or estrogen.
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CNN, American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute
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