Lung Cancer Alliance Lauds New Research on African Americans and Lung Cancer
February 25th, 2010
A new analysis published this week in the journal Cancer indicates that misperceptions about risk, symptoms and the lethality of lung cancer may play a role in the disproportionately higher incidence and mortality rates for lung cancer among African Americans.
The first author of the report, Christopher Lathan MD, MS, MPH, an oncologist at Dana-Farber and a professor at Harvard Medical School, is one of the leading researchers in the country on disparity issues in lung cancer and a member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board of Lung Cancer Alliance.