African American lung cancer patients may have different response to new cancer-fighting drugs

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 20:35 in Health & Medicine

Clinical research out of University Hospitals Case Medical Center has found that African Americans with a common form of lung cancer have a lower frequency of drug-sensitizing genetic mutations, which may impact response to new cancer-fighting drugs.

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