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Norfolk, Va.-Area Institutions to Study Racial Disparity in Prostate Cancer.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
By Elizabeth Simpson, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 25--Black men in Hampton Roads die from prostate cancer at more than twice the rate of white men, and in some cities, at three times the rate.
Two local institutions -- Eastern Virginia Medical School and Norfolk State University -- are teaming up to figure out why.
Researchers will look at an array of issues, including access to health care, the stage of the cancer when diagnosed, biological factors, and decisions by doctors and patients about how aggressively to treat the disease.
The study, funded for two years by the Norfolk Foundation, is part of a larger initiative to look at various ailments that hit blacks harder than...
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