Study reveals breast screening barriers for Black women in UK

Black women face delayed cancer diagnoses due to lower screening participation, increasing risk of advanced disease and poorer health outcomes.

In the United Kingdom, a measurable and consequential distance separates Black African and Caribbean women from a health service designed, in principle, for everyone. University of Surrey researchers found that only 45 percent of eligible Black women attend NHS breast cancer screening, compared to 63 percent of white women — a gap rooted not in apathy but in a layered absence of belonging, trust, and recognition. The women who spoke to researchers did not refuse the service; they described a service that had not yet learned to speak to them. What the study ultimately reveals is that equity in

Study reveals breast screening barriers for Black women in UK

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