terminal cancer

Black patients with terminal cancer more likely to choose aggres...

EurekAlert! - Cancer  Wed, 05/28/2008 - 23:00

(Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Black patients with advanced cancer were more likely thanwhites to die in a hospital intensive care unit, reflecting a greaterpreference among blacks for life-extending treatment even in the face of a terminal prognosis, according to a study led by researchers atDana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.