Reconciling outcomes for Black men with prostate cancer within and outside the Veterans Health Administration

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¹ Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.

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Curtiland Deville Jr et al. Cancer. 2021.

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. 2021 Feb 1;127(3):342-344.

doi: 10.1002/cncr.33225. Epub 2020 Oct 9.

¹ Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland.
² Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.

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Keywords: Veterans Health Administration; cohort analysis; prostate cancer; racial disparities; radiotherapy.

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Outcomes of Black men with prostate cancer treated with radiation therapy in the Veterans Health Administration.
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