A recent study finds that women in Nevada have higher rates of breast cancer deaths compared to the national average. As Reno Public Radio’s Anh Gray women living in southern Nevada have an even lower survival rate.

A recently released study from the University of Nevada Las Vegas could change the way members of the medical community look at health disparities when it comes to blacks and cancer. The study explored differences in cancer deaths between Caribbean born and U.S. born blacks and found that birth country, rather than race alone, is a major factor in cancer mortality rates among blacks in America. U.S.-born blacks have the highest cancer mortality rates while black Caribbean immigrants in the U.S. have the lowest, researchers said.

Public health experts have known that black people face more suffering from cancer than any other group in the United States. Black men have the highest cancer rate of any ethnic group, and both black men and women have the highest death rates and lowest survival chances of any group. But one study has found an odd wrinkle to this: black people who have immigrated from Caribbean countries like Jamaica and Haiti actually have among the lowest cancer rates of anyone in the United States.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death among blacks in the U.S. As Reno Public Radio’s Anh Gray reports a recent study is challenging some previous assumptions about cancer in this group.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death among blacks in the U.S. As Reno Public Radio’s Anh Gray reports a recent study is challenging some previous assumptions about cancer in this group.

A new study finds that African Americans in the US are impacted by cancer a bit differently.

October is the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. As everything goes pink, so increases the awareness among the population about this terrible disease that affects millions of women and families worldwide.

She had been the rock of the family. After work, Imelda Vaquera-Torres cooked dinner in the evenings and kept their home in Little Elm pristine. But after finding a lump in her breast, that all changed as chemotherapy treatments took a toll on her body.

A recent UNLV-led study comparing cancer deaths in U.S. and Caribbean-born black populations in Florida found some huge disparities between the groups, suggesting that analysis of cancer rates solely by race can paint an inaccurate picture of a diverse enclave.

Ikea hit the ground running when it opened in Las Vegas on May 18. By breakfast the day after the opening, representatives were already partnered with Three Square food bank and speaking at a Sustainability Symposium at the local charity’s offices at 4190 N. Pecos Road.

To deal with the stress of his work days in early 2008, he’d go home and flail away on his drum set.

Working 80-hour weeks to figure out what caused the largest hepatitis outbreak in the history of the United States — and how to deal with it — wasn’t easy.

Summer colds are the worst.

You’re not sure how you caught one, but you did — and now you’d love to know where it came from. Or maybe that’s one of those medical mysteries, the kind that Mary Guinan, Ph.D., M.D. solved. In her new book “Adventures of a Female Medical Detective” (with Anne D. Mather), she takes you on some not-so-cold cases.