(Reuters Health) - White patients with the most common form of kidney cancer, called renal cell carcinoma, are slightly more likely to survive the disease than black patients, according to a large new study.
The researchers looked at nearly 40,000 cases and found that black patients tend to start out with more favorable types of renal carcinomas, but "despite that, we still see poorer survival among African Americans," said Wong-Ho Chow, the lead author of the study and a professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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