Discussion Biological Risk Factors There is often the belief that there are biological factors, specific to women, that lead to certain outcomes. This perception is perpetuated by the CDC in their description of who is at risk to have breast cancer. In addition to being a woman, the next factor the CDC presents is a woman’s reproductive history [2]. Additionally, genetic mutations seem to be a critical factor that researchers claim to distinguish Black women’s mortality rate compared to non-Hispanic white women’s mortality rate. In a case-control study of 3,946 Black and 25,287 non-Hispanic White women with breast cancer, there was no difference in the prevalence of germline pathogenic variants [3]. Therefore, the linkage of sex, race, and biology is not a well-founded ground to which the leading cause of cancer death for Black women is solely attributed.
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