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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2009 101(14):969; doi:10.1093/jnci/djp228
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© Oxford University Press 2009.

IN THIS ISSUE

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Racial Disparities in Cancer Mortality

Two studies in this issue address disparities among African American and white cancer patients.

Age-standardized breast cancer mortality rates in the United States are higher for blacks than whites, and the underlying causes of this disparity are unclear. Menashe et al. (p. 993) studied nearly 250,000 female breast cancer cases in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program of the National Cancer Institute. Patients had been diagnosed between 1990 and 2003. For this time period, the researchers found the probability that a women diagnosed with breast cancer would die from the disease (hazard of death) was higher for blacks than . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Saturated Fat Consumption and Pancreatic Cancer Risk

HBV and Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Parous Women

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism and Risk of Breast Cancer


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