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Rich or poor? Now, even cancer gets biased (view pics)

Never would have anyone given a thought that not only us (humans), but diseases too are biased when it comes to choosing between rich or poor class individual. While cancer strikes the rich and poor

PTI Updated on: May 28, 2014 16:04 IST


The investigators assigned nearly three million tumours diagnosed between 2005 and 2009 from 16 states plus Los Angeles (an area covering 42 percent of the US population) into one of four groupings based on the poverty rate of the residential census tract at time of diagnosis.

"When it comes to cancer, the poor are more likely to die of the disease while the affluent are more likely to die with the disease," Boscoe added.

The study appeared in the journal 'inCANCER'

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