Death Rate Higher in Minorities with Acute Leukemia
| dc.contributor.author | AACR, Communications Staff | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-14T15:05:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-08-14T15:05:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Blacks and Hispanics have fewer cases of acute leukemia compared to whites but they die at a substantially higher rate, according to study results presented at the Fourth AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer Health Disparities, held here Sept. 18-21, 2011. From 1998 to 2008, blacks had a 17 percent increased risk of dying from acute leukemia and Hispanics had a 12 percent increased risk compared to white patients. When separated into the two forms of acute leukemia – acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) – the difference in mortality was even more striking. Blacks and Hispanics diagnosed… | |
| dc.description.uri | https://aacrnews.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/death-rate-higher-in-minorities-with-acute-leukemia/ | |
| dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/riyk-nihg | |
| dc.identifier.citation | AACR, Communications Staff (2011) Death Rate Higher in Minorities with Acute Leukemia. AACR. | |
| dc.identifier.other | Eprint ID 3249 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/23843 | |
| dc.subject | Disparities | |
| dc.subject | Cancer | |
| dc.subject | Research | |
| dc.title | Death Rate Higher in Minorities with Acute Leukemia | |
| dc.type | Article |