Poorer Clinical Outcomes for Black Patients with AML: A Wake-Up Call for Better Data and Greater Understanding of Cancer Outcomes in All Ethnic Groups.

Vyas P.

In this issue of Cancer Discovery, Bhatnagar and colleagues show that Black patients in the United States with acute myeloid leukemia have a shorter survival compared with white patients. This is an important paper as it addresses an under researched issue: the complex interaction of race, tumor genetics, socioeconomic factors, and access to treatment in defining treatment outcomes for a devastating cancer.See related article by Bhatnagar et al., p. 626.

DOI

10.1158/2159-8290.CD-20-1778

Type

Journal article

Publication Date

2021-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Volume

11

Pages

540 - 541

Total pages

1

Keywords

Black or African American, Ethnicity, Humans, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Retrospective Studies, Treatment Outcome, United States

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