INTRODUCTION Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and worldwide. According to CDC statistics, one in every four Americans suffers from the effects of heart disease and stroke. Heart disease and stroke account for nearly six million hospitalizations each year. Current figures indicate that CVD costs the [...]

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As discussed in the introduction, black patients have a generally inferior outcome when diagnosed with breast cancer. The goal of this paper was to investigate whether the inferior outcome would extend to black patients with early-stage disease who were treated with postlumpectomy radiotherapy in a manner similar to their white counterparts. One of the strengths [...]

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