Poorer Clinical Outcomes for Black Patients with AML: A Wake-Up Call for Better Data and Greater Understanding of Cancer Outcomes in All Ethnic Groups.

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MRC Molecular Haematology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK.

Published: March 2021

In this issue of , Bhatnagar and colleagues show that Black patients in the United States with acute myeloid leukemia have a shorter survival compared with white patients. This is an important paper as it addresses an under researched issue: the complex interaction of race, tumor genetics, socioeconomic factors, and access to treatment in defining treatment outcomes for a devastating cancer..

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