African-Americans may live longer after liver transplant if their donors are the same race

Friday, January 11, 2019 - 09:40 in Health & Medicine

Among African-American adults undergoing liver transplant to treat liver cancer, patients whose organ donor was also African-American lived significantly longer than those with a racially unmatched donor, report authors of a new study using national data. The study is published online as an “article in press” on the Journal of the American College of Surgeons website in […]

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