In May of 2024, the American Cancer Society announced the launch of the VOICES of Black Women study, a first-of-its-kind initiative that aims to enroll 100,000 participants in 'the largest behavioral and environmental focused population study of cancer risk and outcomes in Black women in the United States.' If the study meets its aims, it could serve as a tremendous step forward in understanding disparities in cancer detection, treatment, and survivorship that disproportionately affect Black women.
The mortality rate for Black women is a devastating 40 percent higher than for White women even though cancer incidence rates among Black and White women are close. This is evidence, according to BCRF, that '[cancer] breakthroughs haven't benefitted all groups equally-and this disparity has remained unchanged for more than a decade.'
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