Vitamin D deficiency could be the reason African American men experience more aggressive prostate cancer at a younger age compared with European American men, research from Cedars-Sinai Cancer suggests. The multi-institutional study, published in Cancer Research Communications, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, could pave the way for revised nutritional guidelines.
Black patients are less likely than patients of other races and ethnicities to receive autologous hematopoietic cell transplants for multiple myeloma, according to a study published in the April issue of Clinical Lymphoma, Myeloma, and Leukemia.
