"Co-survivors are loved ones or significant others of the participants who had cancer," Wilson said. Leonard WilsonThrough fitness and nutrition, Wilson is on a mission to lower cancer rates, especially in the Black community. Data from the American Cancer Society says for most types of cancer, Black people have the highest death rate. The American Cancer Society says Black women are 41% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women. "That statistic is even more striking because fewer Black women are diagnosed with breast cancer than white women," its website reads.