Health Care Disparities Might Affect Black Kids’ Cancer Survival

<p>TUESDAY, May 1 (HealthDay News) — Equal entrance to health care
would revoke a inconsistency in <span>survival rates</span> between white and black<span>children with cancer</span>, a new investigate suggests.</p>
<p>Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis,
Tenn., found that entrance to clinical trials and some-more costly treatments,
such as bone pith transplants, helped urge outcomes for children with
cancer regardless of their ability to pay. This was quite true,
they noted, for those with modernized or formidable forms of <span>cancer</span>.</p>
<p>In conducting a study, researchers compared a outcomes of some-more than
4,000 St. Jude patients and scarcely 24,000 <span>pediatric patients</span> treated at
various U.S. medical centers for 19 opposite forms of cancer. Of a St.
Jude patients, 19 percent were black and about 75 percent were white. Of
the patients treated during s...