Why do Black Americans get more aggressive cancers?

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Why do Black Americans get more aggressive cancers?

… all kinds of cancer, Black Americans have higher rates of mortality … ’t find anything unique in African American patients,” he said. “We … we looked at tumors in African Americans. So we couldn’t … studies have shown that Black Americans are exposed to more …

Source: STAT - Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine

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