Black patients with AML are younger at diagnosis, experience poorer survival outcomes than white patients, data show

Compared with white patients, Black patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) were on average more than five years younger at diagnosis, more than 30% more likely to die of their disease, and more ...
Healio

Black race prognostic for shorter survival in AML regardless of cytogenetic profile

Black race is an independent prognostic factor for shorter survival in acute myeloid leukemia independent of cytogenetic profiles, according to study results presented at ASH Annual Meeting and ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Making the Genetic Models Match the Ancestry of Patient Populations

The problem, Zaaijer explained, is that algorithms used in precision medicine models overwhelming are built on DNA with ...
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Black patients with AML experience earlier onset and poorer outcomes

Compared with white patients, Black patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) were on average more than five years younger ...

Here’s why San Francisco’s legendary albino alligator Claude died at just 30

Claude, a rare albino alligator who lived at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, died this week. Officials ...