Sylvester study indicates treatment patterns, not genetics, drive prostate cancer disparities

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A large-scale retrospective analysis by researchers with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine suggests that differences in care, rather than genetics, likely explain disparities in advanced prostate cancer between men of African and European ancestry.

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