Blacks Less Likely To Survive Advanced Breast Cancer Regardless Of Radiation Therapy

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Start date Jul 25, 2011
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Jul 25, 2011

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UC Davis researchers have found that blacks are more likely than patients from other racial and ethnic groups to die from advanced breast cancer and that the disparity cannot be explained by the fact that blacks are less likely to receive radiation therapy, a standard treatment for advanced disease. "We knew from our earlier study that blacks with advanced breast cancer were less likely to be treated with radiation, so we expected to see that their survival would be poorer because of that," said Steve R...