AACR launches initiative focused on health disparities in African-Americans

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The American Association for Cancer Research has launched a collaborative initiative that will perform genomic sequencing of both tumor and normal tissue from 2,020 consented African-American cancer patients, and aggregate it with clinical data from the patients.

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