Studies point to redlining as a ‘perfect storm’ for breast cancer

In neighborhoods across America, women face a daunting threat from a federal practice that, although it was outlawed decades ago, continues to negatively impact their health today.

That’s according to the findings of new University at Buffalo research that examines how historical redlining — the federal policy from the 1930s where neighborhoods were given mortgage security grades based on race, ethnicity, class status and land use — impacts both present-day breast cancer factors and…

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