Socioeconomic factors -- not race or ethnicity -- influence survival of younger patients with multiple myeloma
Monday, August 22, 2016 - 19:01
in Health & Medicine
Advances in the treatment of multiple myeloma, a cancer that forms in a type of white blood cell, have led to improved survival predominantly among young and white patients, with less of an increase in survival observed in patients of other ethnicities. A new study indicates that this gap is mostly due to socioeconomic differences between whites and ethnic minorities, not race itself.
