Hispanic women typically have fewer incidences of breast cancer when compared to non-Hispanic white women; however, when they are diagnosed with breast cancer, it is usually an aggressive form or in the advanced stages of disease. Now, researchers have found a link among Hispanic and non-Hispanic black women when it comes to breast cancer and obesity.

HHL contributor Dr. Jeffrey Weitzel recently sat down with Glenn Llopis, founder and CEO of Center for Hispanic Leadership, to give us an update on his research with breast cancer in the Latina community.

The link between obesity and an increased risk for breast cancer may vary by ethnicity and race, suggest study results presented at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, in San Diego in 2012, by Marilyn L. Kwan, Ph.D., a research scientist in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. 

The woman caller named Rosario said she was anxious. She had lumps on her breast. Could we help her get a mammogram?

By Breast Cancer Research Foundation

This is the conclusion of a two-part Q&A between Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) and Dr. Jeffery Weitzel, Division Chief of Clinical Cancer Genetics at City of Hope in California, in which he discusses his work in the Latina community, both in the U.S. and Latin America, and his insight on new discoveries that are helping us to understand the role of genetics in breast cancer risk for Hispanic women.