About The Study: Black patients were less likely to be treated with proton beam therapy (PBT) than white patients, especially for cancers for which PBT is recommended over photon-based radiation therapy, according to the results of this study that included 5.2 million patients.
Authors: Leticia M. Nogueira, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.8970)
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