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Racial and ethnic disparities in neurocognitive, emotional, and quality-of-life outcomes in survivors of childhood cancer: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.

Stephanie B DixonNan LiYutaka YasuiSmita BhatiaJacqueline N CasillasTodd M GibsonKirsten K NessJerlym S PorterRebecca M HowellWendy M LeisenringLeslie L RobisonMelissa M HudsonKevin R KrullGregory T Armstrong
Published in: Cancer (2019)
Although no pattern of disparity in neurocognitive outcomes was observed, differences across many HRQOL outcomes among minorities compared with NHWs, not attenuated by current SES, were identified. This suggests that further research into environmental and sociocultural factors during and immediately after treatment is needed.
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