the lessons to be learned about getting products off ships and on to shelves. these containers are all loaded on rail cars that are going to head to big cities. garrett: sngs outrage a truck driver is given 110 years in pris pon for a pileup that killed four people. protests tonight saying the sentence is excessive. the war on cancer a closer look at the racial divide in diagnosis and treatment. and finally a story about a christmas tree that could become your new tradition and help the environment at the same time. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell reporting from the nation s capital. garrett: good evening, everyone. thank you for joining us. i m major garrett in for norah. we begin with the omicron surge. the variant is spreading faster than all other covid strains. this we know on monday the c.d.c. reported nearly 290,000 new covid cases. that is the second-most new infections in one day since this
healthcare systems. reporter: tommer s surgeon, dr. vivian bea, is trying to change that equation. you have to look at the finances, the transportation. you can have a cancer treatment center, but if it s not accessible, patients cannot get to those areas. reporter: there are racial differences in the biology of tumors, and the types of breast cancer. black women are more likely to be diagnosed with actually triple negative breast cancer, which is more difficult to treat. there are one, two, three, four. reporter: in the 1990s, genetic researcher john carpten was studying patients with a strong history of prostate cancer, which kills black men at twice the rate of white men. i remember asking myself, i wonder how many of these families are african american. reporter: that s hard to answer, because racial ethnic minorities have been underrepresented in research studies. if we have 95% of the data coming from whites, how can we say that we understand the full complexity
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was putting off going. reporter: tracy tomer had her first mammogram at age 53. after feeling a lump in her breast.ast cancer, but there were delays before treatment began. in this area that i live in, in brownsville, there s no mammogram service over here. there s no chemo service over here. there s no radiation. reporter: black women are more likely than white women to have tumors missed during screening and to have delays in diagnosis and treatment. one reason is access to care. all the appointments were so far away from one another. it s really a bad situation for women of color in this neighborhood. reporter: when it comes to breast and other cancers, the hard truth is there s a racial divide. while black and white women have the same chance of getting breast cancer, black women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancer and are 40% more likely to die from it. there are biases. there are implicit and explicit biases that exist within