Mushmouth
01-28-2018, 09:22 AM
‘Powerful Clues’ Show Tumor Biology Contributes to Racial Disparities in Mortality
Although persisting across tumor types, this disparity is particularly evident among black women, whose population-based breast cancer mortality rate is 42% higher than white women, and among black men with prostate cancer, who are more than twice as likely to die as white men.
when it comes to breast cancer, there are so many powerful clues suggesting the contribution of tumor biology linked to African ancestry that it’s bad science for us to close our eyes to it and not explore it fully
https://www.amren.com/news/2018/01/powerful-clues-show-tumor-biology-contributes-racial-disparities-mortality/
Although persisting across tumor types, this disparity is particularly evident among black women, whose population-based breast cancer mortality rate is 42% higher than white women, and among black men with prostate cancer, who are more than twice as likely to die as white men.
when it comes to breast cancer, there are so many powerful clues suggesting the contribution of tumor biology linked to African ancestry that it’s bad science for us to close our eyes to it and not explore it fully
https://www.amren.com/news/2018/01/powerful-clues-show-tumor-biology-contributes-racial-disparities-mortality/