Death rate higher in minorities with acute leukemia

Monday, September 19, 2011 - 17:30 in Health & Medicine

Blacks and Hispanics have fewer cases of acute leukemia compared to whites but they die at a substantially higher rate, according to study results presented at the Fourth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held here Sept. 18-21, 2011.

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