Study finds diverse differences in microbes in breast tumors from patients of different races

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The breast tumors of Asian, Black and white patients have very different cellular, microbial, and genomic features that could potentially be used to personalize care or predict disease progression, according to research by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. 

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