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Prostate Cancer Genomics Study IDs PARP Inhibitors as Potentially Beneficial to Black Men

Jul 10, 2020
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NEW YORK – A new study on the genomics of prostate cancer has found that although there are some novel genetic differences between African-American men and men of European ancestry, the frequencies of genomic alterations in current therapeutic targets were similar between the two groups, suggesting that some of the differences in their mortality rates are related to social and environmental factors.

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