Race affects access not outcomes for cancer transplant treatment
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - 06:43
in Health & Medicine
A new study by researchers at The Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Centre Milwaukee, has found that African Americans and whites have identical survival rates after undergoing autologous (self donor) bone marrow transplant treatment for a common cancer of the bone marrow (multiple myeloma). However, in a previous study the researchers showed that African Americans were only half as likely as whites to actually receive a bone marrow transplant, the well-established life-prolonging treatment for the disease...
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