Black women with uterine cancers more likely to die than white patients
Monday, February 9, 2009 - 04:42
in Health & Medicine
Black women with cancers of the uterus are less likely to survive the disease than white women, and relatively little progress has been made over the past two decades to narrow this racial difference. That is the conclusion of a new study published in the March 15, 2009 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.
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