Minority Health

Blacks Do Just as Well with Equal Cancer Treatment

Published in Cancer Weekly, November 29th, 1999

When blacks receive identical care as whites, they are no more likely to die of colon cancer, suggesting that poorer quality care and not biology is responsible for the higher death rates seen among U.S. blacks, researchers said.

James Dignam of the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and colleagues said they examined information from five different clinical trials on colon cancer treatment, with 663 blacks and 5,969 whites enrolled in the trials.

The researchers said all the patients were treated exactly the same and received the careful care that is required of clinical studies, which are conducted to compare different therapies - in this...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1999-11-29)

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