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Cancer that targets young African women

It is a harder-to-treat type of breast cancer common among young African women, African American women and Latinos (Photo: Courtesy)

Breast cancer remains the world’s commonest cancer but there is a type of the cancer that presents in a more than typical aggressive form.

It is called the triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). It is a harder-to-treat type of breast cancer common among young African women, African American women and Latinos.

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