Increasing the pool of academically oriented African‐American medical and surgical oncologists

In the United States, breast cancer mortality rates are significantly higher among African‐American women than among women of other ethnic backgrounds. Research efforts to evaluate the socioeconomic, environmental, biologic, and genetic mechanisms explaining this disparity are needed.

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