Health Equity

Access to Care May Explain Disparities in Prostate Cancer Outcomes

Abstract: Disparities in medical care may account for why African-American men with prostate cancer are almost twice as likely to die as white men with the disease.

Publication: The new York Times

Date Published: January 27, 2020

Author(s): Nicholas Bakalar

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