Black women face troubling discrepancies when it comes to breast cancer diagnoses and outcomes, but locals and organizations like Susan G. Komen are working to push back against those statistics.

โ€œBlack women in America are dying from breast cancer at unacceptable rates and are more than 40 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than white women,โ€ said Kim Schmulowitz, communications and marketing director for Susan G. Komen Maryland.

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