Researchers identify protein that contributes to racial disparities in prostate cancer

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Cancer researchers have long known that prostate cancer tends to be more common, more aggressive and more resistant to existing treatments in African-Americans than in Caucasian-Americans, but they’re only beginning to understand why. A Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center study published today points to cellular factors that appear to be driving these disparities—mitochondrial differences that prevent formation of the cancer-killing […]

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Significant disparities in college student mental health treatment across race/ethnicity

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The first nationally representative study since the 1990s to examine mental health among college students of color, led by a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researcher, shows significant disparities in treatment across race/ethnicity. The study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, found that, among college students with clinically significant mental health problems, half of white students received […]

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Socioeconomic status may explain racial and ethnic disparities in childhood cancer survival

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A new study provides insights into the degree to which socioeconomic status explains racial and ethnic disparities in childhood cancer survival. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings may inform where to allocate resources to best reduce racial and ethnic survival disparities for each of the major types of childhood cancer. For […]

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