Discussion: Race and Breast Cancer Reconstruction: Is There a Health Care Disparity?

John G Hunter^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ New York and Brooklyn, N.Y.
² From the Combined Division of Plastic Surgery, New York-Presbyterian Hospital (Weill Cornell Medicine), and Department of Surgery, New York Methodist Hospital.

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John G Hunter. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2016 Aug.

. 2016 Aug;138(2):362-363.

doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000002410.

John G Hunter^{1

2}

¹ New York and Brooklyn, N.Y.
² From the Combined Division of Plastic Surgery, New York-Presbyterian Hospital (Weill Cornell Medicine), and Department of Surgery, New York Methodist Hospital.

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Comment on

Race and Breast Cancer Reconstruction: Is There a Health Care Disparity?
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