June 04, 2007
Disparities Persist in Cancer Care
From HealthDay:
Two studies presented Sunday at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago show that race and socioeconomic status affect cancer prognosis, at least when it comes to breast cancer and some childhood cancers.
One report found that, although overall survival among women with metastatic breast cancer has improved over the past two decades, the survival gap between black and white women is widening. And children stricken with cancer in developing countries have a dramatically poorer prognosis than children in more developed nations, although a new program may narrow that difference.