Blacks, Hispanics Less Likely Than Whites To Receive Follow-up Radiation For Early Breast Cancer
Friday, May 30, 2008 - 10:14
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 led by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
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