Minorities face longer wait times for vital lung cancer treatment, study finds (IMAGE)

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Minorities face longer wait times for vital lung cancer treatment, study finds

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“Our results suggest that non-white lung cancer patients have delayed time to cancer treatment compared with white patients, and this is not limited to a particular type of treatment facility," said senior researcher Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD, of UVA Cancer Center and the University of Virginia School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health Sciences.

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Dan Addison | UVA Communications

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