Aria Bendix is the breaking health reporter for NBC News Digital.
The risk of dying from cancer has steadily declined in the U.S. over the last few decades, but Black women still have some of the lowest survival rates. Although Black women are less likely to be diagnosed with cancer than white women, they are they more likely to die of it within five years, according to the National Cancer Institute.
Examples abound: In the 19th century, physician James Marion Sims performed experimental gynecological surgery on Black women without anesthesia. Starting in 1932, the 40-year Tuskegee experiment denied treatment to Black men with syphilis. And in 1951, Henrietta Lacks' cancer cells were cultured without her consent, then subsequently used in decades of key scientific research.
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