NEW YORK, March 20 African-American men are more likely to die of breast cancer than white men, according to a U.S. study.Researchers at Columbia University in New York analyzed data of 510 men 65 and older who were diagnosed with stage I to stage III breast cancer between 1991 and 2002.The study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found five-year survival rates of approximately 90 percent among 456 white men and 66 percent among 34 African-American men. However, more research is needed to confirm the results.Male breast cancer accounts for less than 1 percent of all breast cancers and less than 1 percent of all cancers in men, but the incidence is increasing.The cancer rate has risen by about 60 percent from 1990 to 2000: An estimated 1,700 new cases were diagnosed in the United States in 2006 and about 400 men died of the disease, according to senior author Dr. Dawn L. Hershman of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia.Copyright 2007 by UPI
