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Study finds race affects African American survival of breast cancer

African American women with breast cancer were more likely to have larger, later-stage tumors that were more difficult to treat and also had lower survival rates than Hispanic and Caucasian women who received the same treatment in two independent series of clinical trials examined by researchers from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

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