Blacks, Hispanics less likely than whites to receive follow-up radiation for early breast cancer
Saturday, May 31, 2008 - 12:21
in Health & Medicine
Black and Hispanic women are less likely than white women to receive the radiation therapy routinely prescribed following surgery for early breast cancer, according to a study that Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers will present at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago...
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