Archive for April 20th, 2009

20 Apr

Ethnoracial Differences in Breast Cancer May Have Biologic Cause

A comparison of breast cancer tumor characteristics and clinical outcomes between African-American and white women suggests that tumor differences may have a biologic cause according to a recent study published in Cancer. Elmore et al studied 400 women (100 black and 300 white) who had received an initial diagnosis of breast cancer between January 1985 [...]

20 Apr

Southern States Have Largest Number of AIDS Cases

Data recently reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that southern states (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia) account for the highest proportion of reported acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases in 1997 (34%). This [...]

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