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Race, gender and the ways these identities intersect matter in cancer outcomes

  • Written by Timothy Pawlik, Professor of Surgery, The Ohio State University
Race, gender and the ways these identities intersect matter in cancer outcomesCancer care research usually focuses on just one of a patient's social identities.Isaac Lane Koval/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images

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Belonging to one or more groups with long-standing social and economic disadvantages increases the risk of cancer diagnoses and death, according...

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