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Breast cancer research among African-American women : Accurate racial categories?

✍ Scribed by Larry W. Figgs

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Weight: 93 KB
Volume: 97
Category: Article
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11024

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✦ Synopsis

This essay questions the appropriateness of racial categories in breast cancer research and recommends the discontinuation of "African-American" as a valid racial category in breast cancer research until better categories can be developed.

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