Being diagnosed with cancer can be a journey with a life-changing impact. You’re too strong to navigate it alone.
Our community is here to help.
Like most things involving the brain, brain cancer is complex. It can cause symptoms that make you think differently or impact how you move.
It might be hard to find strength when even Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) died from this cancer. But with early detection and treatment, it can be less deadly.
Smoking is a factor, but it’s not the only one. You can still develop lung cancer without ever smoking.
Lymphoma is a group of blood cancers that affect your immune system. While not as common for Black people, it is one cancer whose survival rates have improved over the years.
Another form of blood cancer, multiple myeloma is twice as common and deadly in Black people than in white people.4
We know you might be nervous to get tested for prostate cancer. It’s important you understand your prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels and family history to understand your risk.
Ovarian cancer doesn’t have to be a “silent killer” when you know which symptoms to look out for.
When we are not included in clinical research, we can’t be sure if a treatment will work just as well or be just as safe for us as it will for other races.
By participating in clinical research, we can give ourselves a chance to have treatments that may work better and be safer for us.
Learning more about clinical research can be a critical step in improving health outcomes for future generations.
If you still have questions, you are not alone.
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The Global Cancer Burden. Retrieved from American Cancer Society
Cancer statistics for African American and Black people, 2025. CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Retrieved from Black Women and Breast Cancer: Why Disparities Persist and How to End Them
Addressing the disparities: the approach to the African American patient with multiple myeloma. Blood Cancer Journal.
