{"id":237,"date":"2020-10-30T15:34:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T19:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kolab\/?p=237"},"modified":"2024-09-26T15:37:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T19:37:53","slug":"mgh-bmc-study-looks-at-the-role-race-plays-in-treating-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kolab\/2020\/10\/30\/mgh-bmc-study-looks-at-the-role-race-plays-in-treating-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"MGH, BMC Study Looks At The Role Race Plays In Treating Breast Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Medical Center have been awarded a $350,000 grant from pharmaceutical maker Pfizer to study how race is a factor in treating cancer and surviving it.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s been a perpetual problem in breast cancer where black women have a death rate that\u2019s almost 40% higher than white women,\u201d Dr. Ko said. \u201cAnd this disparity has been really troubling for a long time, for decades now.\u201d &#8212; Dr. Naomi Ko<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wbznewsradio.iheart.com\/content\/mgh-bmc-study-looks-at-the-role-race-plays-in-treating-breast-cancer\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Medical Center have been awarded a $350,000 grant from pharmaceutical maker Pfizer to study how race is a factor in treating cancer and surviving it. \u201cIt\u2019s been a perpetual problem in breast cancer where black women have a death rate that\u2019s almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24069,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/kolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}