Cancer Researchers Call For Ethnicity To Be Taken Into Account

Friday, July 18, 2008 - 19:21 in Psychology & Sociology

Breast cancer research needs to investigate how a person's ethnicity influences their response to treatment and its outcome, according to a new Comment piece in The Lancet. Emerging evidence suggests that particular drugs may benefit people from one ethnic group more than others, because of differences in their genetic makeup.

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