86 new risk factors identified in research co-led by USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
San Francisco, CA (UroToday.com) — Some racial and ethnic groups suffer relatively more often, and fare worse, from common ailments compared to others. Prostate cancer is one disease where such health disparities occur: Risk for the disease is about 75% higher, and prostate cancer is more than twice as deadly, in blacks compared with whites. Yet whites are often overrepresented as research participants, making these differences difficult to understand and, ultimately, address.