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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(22):1912-1913; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.22.1912
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 22, 1912-1913, November 17, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

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Racial Gaps in Cancer Survival — Asking the Wrong Questions?

Bob Kuska

A landmark 1973 study showed for the first time an "alarming increase" in the number of American blacks dying from cancer. Today, nearly 30 years later, experts say the alarm bells continue to sound unabated.

One reason the problem persists is its sheer complexity. Black healthcare topics often extend far beyond medicine, intertwining with thorny social issues, such as education, economics, culture, and racism.

Although the lion's share of the biomedical research in this area over the last two decades has focused on identifying inequities among the races within the U.S. healthcare system, future work may begin to ask why these inequities exist.

According to Otis Brawley, M.D., who heads the National Cancer Institute's Office of Special Populations Research, only by determining the source of these barriers can they . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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