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JULY 10, 2018

Study Spotlights Racial Disparities in Gastric Cancer

By Kate O’Rourke

An analysis of data from the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) identified significant differences in age and stage at presentation, socioeconomic status and treatment among patients with gastric cancer in the United States, as stratified by race.

The study was presented at the 2018 Society of Surgical Oncology Annual Cancer Symposium (abstract PF190).

In the study, researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, in Memphis, with lead study author Zachary