Genetic factors implicated in survival gap for breast, ovarian or prostate cancer

Friday, July 10, 2009 - 12:21 in Health & Medicine

NEW YORK (July 8, 2009) -- A new finding reveals that African-American patients with breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer tend to die earlier than patients of other races with these cancers, even when they receive identical medical treatment and when socioeconomic factors are controlled for.

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