"Dr. Bishoy Faltas, an oncologist at Weill Cornell who is leading the study on bladder cancer, said conducting genetic research on patients of different ethnic backgrounds was important because the way that patients’ immune systems respond to cancer and cancer therapies is determined by their genetic makeup."https://nyti.ms/33l2Je7
Multi-Disciplinary Investigations to Study Wide Array of Cancers in Minority Patients: Bladder, Pancreatic, Breast, Prostate, Colon, Endometrial and Lung Cancers
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