Government’s New Online Cancer Risk Tool Omits Minorities
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 11:07
in Health & Medicine
Blacks, Hispanics and Asians cannot use a colorectal cancer risk assessment because it relies on data derived from studies of older whites. Government researchers hope to broaden the application.
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