Racial differences in kidney cancer care, outcome
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NEW YORK  - There are disparities in the treatment and outcome between older black and white patients who have renal cell cancer, with blacks having significantly lower survival rates, according to a new study.
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Black women with uterine cancer are   more likely to die than white women given similar treatment,   U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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MONDAY, Sept. 27 (HealthDayNews) -- Elderly black men are only 50 percent as likely to get tested for prostate cancer as elderly white men are, says a study in the current issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds. Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed narcotics such as oxycodone and morphine less frequently than whites.
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More African-American women are  being screened for breast cancer than in years past, but  they're still less likely to have the disease caught early  compared with white women, a new study shows.
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-- A new study gives a possible explanation for why breast cancer is more deadly in black women: they are more likely to have tumors that do not respond to the hormone-based treatments that help many others with the disease.
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U.S. black men aged 65 and older run twice the risk of dying from prostate cancer than comparable whites, but they are less likely to have a common blood test to detect the disease, a study said on Monday.
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In a study of prostate cancer  patients living in California, most Asian men with the disease  survived longer than their white counterparts. The exception  was men from South Asia; their survival was worse than that of  white men.
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After undergoing prostate removal because of localized cancer, African-American men have better recovery of sexual and urinary function than do non-Hispanic white men, researchers report.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Even though U.S. Medicare has expanded coverage for colon cancer screening, blacks and Hispanics are not benefiting as much as whites, a new study shows.
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NEW YORK  - Much of the racial and ethnic  differences in the care given to patients hospitalized with a  heart attack can be explained by the quality of the hospital to  which patients are admitted, rather than racial bias, a new  study indicates.
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Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are at least partially due to differences in care between hospitals and not racism on an individual level, a new study says.
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NEW YORK  - Despite receiving similar   treatment, black women with advanced or recurrent endometrial   cancer fare worse than their white counterparts, according to a   report in the September 25th online issue of Cancer.
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Black esophageal cancer patients in  the United States are half as likely as whites to get surgery  that can help them live longer and often do not even see a  surgeon, researchers reported on Tuesday.
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A study finds race plays a major role, with blacks and Native Americans the least likely to be screened. By Steven Reinberg. MONDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDayNews) -- Throughout rural America, breast cancer screening
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Blacks were far less likely than whites to get specialized procedures after a heart attack and were more likely to die within a year, according to a study showing persistent racial disparities in U.S. medical care.
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Black donors are preferable for blacks receiving kidneys because of the organ's sensitivity to genetic factors. But medical specialists say the number of black donors is not keeping up with the huge need, due in part to a distrust of doctors stemming from the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study.