Racial health disparities in ovarian cancer: not just black and white.
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SUBMITTER: Srivastava SK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5607508 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
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Racial health disparities in ovarian cancer: not just black and white.
Srivastava Sanjeev K SK Ahmad Aamir A Miree Orlandric O Patel Girijesh Kumar GK Singh Seema S Rocconi Rodney P RP Singh Ajay P AP
Journal of ovarian research 20170921 1
Ovarian cancer (OC) is the most lethal gynecological malignancy, which disproportionately affects African American (AA) women. Lack of awareness and socioeconomic factors are considered important players in OC racial health disparity, while at the same time, some recent studies have brought focus on the genetic basis of disparity as well. Differential polymorphisms, mutations and expressions of genes have been reported in OC patients of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. Combined, it appears ...[more]
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