Cancer researchers call for ethnicity to be taken into account

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Wed, 07/16/2008 - 23:00

(Imperial College London) Breast cancer research needs to investigate how a person's ethnicity influences their response to treatment and its outcome, according to a new Comment piece in today's Lancet.

Emerging evidence suggests that particular drugs may benefit people from one ethnic group more than others, because of differences in their genetic makeup.


 

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