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Viral Infection May Explain Racial Differences in Oral Cancer Death Rates

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Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, July 31, 2009

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After scientists at the University of Maryland noticed that whites treated at their hospital for squamous cell head and neck cancers lived more than twice as long as black patients who received the same care at their hospital, they took a closer look. Further analysis revealed that the gap was almost entirely due to differences in survival among patients with cancer of the throat and tonsils, or oropharyngeal cancer.

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{snip} While half of the throat cancer patients had HPV-positive tumors, 98 percent of the positive tumors were from white patients, while a vast majority of black patients had HPV-negative tumors.

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(Posted on August 10, 2009)

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1 — Madison Grant wrote at 5:53 PM on August 10:

How could this strain of oral cancer affect whites and blacks differently?

After all, according to the New York Times and the rest of the liberal establishment, race is an imaginary “social construct”.

I guess they forget to tell the diseases that…

2 — Anonymous wrote at 6:17 PM on August 10:

Tumors in the throat caused by the HPV virus tend to be low-grade and easily treatable with chemotherapy if caught in time.

Tumors caused by excessive smoking or drinking tend to be much more aggressive and don’t respond as well to chemotherapy.

I don’t see why a racial angle was put on this?

3 — feller wrote at 7:50 PM on August 10:

Didn’t the doctors at this hospital know that evil white injected HIV into blacks? These blacks were murdered!

4 — Shawn (the female) wrote at 12:13 PM on August 11:

My father died from squamous cell cancer of the head and neck. He got excellent care, but died a horrible death anyway. I have no idea if he lived longer than blacks being treated, but in my opinion he didn’t live nearly long enough for me.


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