Why Do Black Patients Fare Worse With Blood Cancer?
By Serena McNiff
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, Dec. 11, 2020 (HealthDay News) A pair of studies shed new light on why a relatively rare blood cancer acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is more deadly among Black patients.
The takeaways: Where patients live and their access to quality health care matter. And even when Black people with AML have the same access to treatment as white patients, their survival is shorter something genetic differences might explain.
Authors of the two studies recently discussed their findings at an online news briefing held by the American Society of Hematology.
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