Cancer Survival Depends on Where You Live - by Steven Reinberg
Your odds of surviving cancer depend on which country you live in. And, in the United States, it also depends on whether you're black or white, a new study finds. Economic differences among countries, access to health care, and the availability of cancer treatments feed the disparities in survival, the report said. "There is a very wide global range in the odds of survival after a cancer diagnosis," said lead researcher Michel Coleman, a professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Great Britain. "Some of the range is understandable on the basis of the relative wealth of these countries," he added.
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