Racial disparities, cancer and response to oxidative stress.
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SUBMITTER: Zhang J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7104807 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Racial disparities, cancer and response to oxidative stress.
Zhang Jie J Ye Zhi-Wei ZW Townsend Danyelle M DM Hughes-Halbert Chanita C Tew Kenneth D KD
Advances in cancer research 20190423
At the intersection of genetics, biochemistry and behavioral sciences, there is a largely untapped opportunity to consider how ethnic and racial disparities contribute to individual sensitivity to reactive oxygen species and how these might influence susceptibility to various cancers and/or response to classical cancer treatment regimens that pervasively result in the formation of such chemical species. This chapter begins to explore these connections and builds a platform from which to consider ...[more]
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