(HealthCore) Cancer, the peer-reviewed international journal of the American Cancer Society, has published a study conducted by HealthCore Inc. in its Jan. 1 edition, demonstrating disparities in breast cancer treatment between commercially insured African-American and white women, confirming studies in government health plans.The HealthCore study reiterates the findings of previous studies — conducted in populations using government health programs — that African-American women are diagnosed in later stages of the disease.

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