Medical resident finds black breast cancer survivors face higher heart failure risk

Black breast cancer survivors face higher heart failure risk: study

HealthDay News: According to a new study led by second-year internal medicine resident Anna Valina-Toth, black breast cancer survivors seem more likely to develop heart failure than other women. The rate of heart failure among breast cancer survivors was 21 percent among black women, compared to 16 percent among whites, 13 percent among Hispanics, 12 percent among Asians and 11 percent among others.