Shakeya Allen was 27 years old when she felt something was not right with her health. A miscarriage would lead to her diagnosis. “They said, ‘Don’t worry. Women under 40 do not get uterine cancer.

including diet and exercise said Sylvester researcher Sophia George, Ph.D., who was raised in the Caribbean country of Dominica.

In the US, Black people have the highest death rates and shortest survival rates from most cancers, of any racial group — a clinical reality with which Sophia George has personal experience.