Genetic mutations, molecular alterations may explain racial differences in head, neck cancers
Monday, December 9, 2013 - 14:31
in Health & Medicine
A team of scientists has identified a handful of genetic mutations in black Americans, in addition to some chemical alterations affecting gene activity, which may help explain why the death rate among African-Americans from the most common form of head and neck cancer continues to hover some 18 percent higher above the death rate of whites with the same cancer.