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Old July 7th, 2009 #1
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Default Cancer Study. Another Chip In The Racial Construct Wall.

[quote] A study published today in a leading medical journal found that African-Americans were more likely than other patients to die from three gender-related cancers--breast, prostate and ovarian--even when they received the same advanced care from the same doctors.

The survival disparity for the three cancers persisted after researchers controlled for socioeconomic factors such as education and income, according to the findings of a large national clinical trial.

The research did not find a statistically significant association between race and survival for lung cancer, colon cancer, lymphoma, leukemia or myeloma.

Appearing in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the study analyzed records of more than 19,000 adult cancer patients across the country who participated in 35 randomized phase III clinical trials and were followed for at least 10 years. The trials were conducted by the Southwest Oncology Group, a national research collaborative funded by the National Cancer Institute.


African-Americans' risk of dying during the study period was found to be 61 percent higher for advanced ovarian cancer, 49 percent higher for early post-menopausal breast cancer, 41 percent higher for early breast cancer before menopause, and 21 percent higher for advanced prostate cancer.

Lead researcher Dr. Kathy Albain, a breast and lung cancer specialist for the west suburban Loyola University Health System, said the findings suggest that African-Americans' lower survival rates for certain cancers are not entirely due to factors such as poverty and poor access to quality health care.

Instead, she said, the new study suggests that an interaction of hormones, tumor biology and inherited gene variations likely plays a significant role in the survival gap for breast, prostate and ovarian cancers by controlling the body's metabolism of drugs, toxins and hormones.

"If you stir all that up in a pot," Albain said, "then I think we will have an answer as to why it is that those cancers still have the disparity but none of the other cancers do."

Some researchers, however, were critical of the study's methodology and its conclusions about biological causes for racial disparities. The prevailing view in health disparities research is that socioeconomic factors play the dominant role.

Steve Whitman, director of the Sinai Urban Health Institute in Chicago, said a large body of research has documented the importance of poverty, access to care and quality of care to cancer survival.

"What happens is, once again, the problem is not with society, not with social issues, it's not with racism, but with the biology that lies within black people," he said in criticizing the study.

He said researchers did not adequately control for the socioeconomic status of study participants, which led to faulty conclusions.

"They don't have actual measurements of the characteristics of the [subjects], but only of the ZIP codes that people live in, which is totally unacceptable," Whitman said.

"There are still residual social variables in life that makes black people different than white people and they have totally ignored all of that," he added.

Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, said the biggest cause of racial disparities is lack of appropriate treatment.

"To get rid of the black-white disparity we need to work on simple logistic issues: getting people adequate care," said Brawley, who wrote an editorial that accompanied the study.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...,1916593.story
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Old July 19th, 2009 #2
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"What happens is, once again, the problem is not with society, not with social issues, it's not with racism, but with the biology that lies within black people," he said in criticizing the study.

He said researchers did not adequately control for the socioeconomic status of study participants, which led to faulty conclusions.
Excellent. This proves all those anti-racist idiots wrong. Anti-racists like to think that race is simply a social concept but they are wrong because races do physically exist. I would love to see them explain this one. Socioeconomic status has nothing to do with it.
 
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