Racial health disparities in ovarian cancer: not just black and white

• Main Authors: Sanjeev K. Srivastava (Author), Aamir Ahmad (Author), Orlandric Miree (Author), Girijesh Kumar Patel (Author), Seema Singh (Author), Rodney P. Rocconi (Author), Ajay P. Singh (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Ovarian cancer (OC) is the most lethal gynecological malignancy, which disproportionately affects African American (AA) women. Lack of awareness and socioeconomic factors are considered important players in OC racial health disparity, while at the same time, some recent studies have brought...