A grandmother, two great aunts and a cousin.
The MD Anderson Cancer Center oncologist has seen the pain it can inflict both inside and outside the clinical setting. And as someone who is biracial, with a Hispanic mother and Black father, he is deeply familiar with the increased risk among people of color.
“Even if you adjust for the fact that there are some differences across access to care, and even if you adjust for the stage of diagnosis, we see differences in terms of survival,” he said. “This raises the possibility of higher genetic predisposition to among African Americans and this has not been well studied,” the authors noted.
Most genetic studies into colorectal cancer have lacked racial representation, he said, with much of that work focused on people with European ancestry. It’s a multi-faceted issue, he said, only to be fully understood by accounting for socioeconomic factors, such as inadequate housing, food insecurity, lack of transportation and other components that affect health.
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