Racial disparities persist in U.S. cancer treatment | U.S. | Reuters

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By Will

Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. blacks continue to get inferior

cancer treatment compared to whites, researchers said on Monday in a study

showing that disparities first documented in the early 1990s persist despite

efforts to erase them.

The researchers assessed the type of treatment given to more

than 143,000 Americans over age 65 for lung, breast, colon, rectal and

prostatecancer from 1992 to 2002 under the Medicare government health insurance

program.