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Doctors treat white and black patients differently, study says

September 03, 2008

race, racism, black, white, breast cancer, doctors, study, medicine, surgery, stage breast cancer, therapy

This just in, from Reuters:

Doctors are less likely to give black women radiation therapy after surgery to remove early-stage breast cancer than white women, researchers said on Wednesday, adding to evidence of racial disparities in U.S. medicine.

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