race does not matter how long a cancer patient is treated black or white lung will survive the disease, report researchers play.

“Simply put, if 100 patients [White] and 100 patients people [black] similar age, tumor stage, type of lung cancer must be treated the same differences in their survival simply because they are different races,” said Dr. Rajesh Sehgal, a oncologist at the Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center in Huntington, W. Virginia, said in a press release on behalf of the American Association for Cancer Research.

“[Black], patients had lower overall median survival time, but that after all other factors and predict, influence, including age and type of treatment, race was [black] is an independent predictor of poor survival chances,” said Sehgal, who also Professor of Medicine University Joan C. Edwards Marshall Medical School.

The study also noted the patients of other races or ethnic groups – including Hispanic Asian patients – was slightly better prognosis than white patients with African-Americans, indicating that it said biological differences in tumors in these groups of people, the authors of the study.

should react Sehgal team on Saturday at the American Association for Cancer Research Scientific Conference of the gaps in lung cancer, in Miami this week.

The researchers gathered their conclusions from the data of the Cancer Information Resource File, which more than 130 500 patients with lung cancer diagnosed 2003-2008 included.

Slightly more than 91 percent of patients were white, 6.5 percent were black and 2.1 percent were “other,” said the researcher.

70 year old man were the factors with poor prognosis in general seem associated researchers found black patients were more likely to get the diagnosis before the age of 70 were white patients (67 percent versus 54 percent, respectively).

Radiotherapy best results, and with some form of non-small cell lung cancer (also known as bronchoalveolar lung cancer) than other patients with lung cancer. In addition, patients receiving chemotherapy, a survival rate of 43 percent higher than without, while the operation is postponed to 60 percent survive, according to the information to the press.

Black patients were less likely to contribute to color, that white patients tend to have their illnesses diagnosed when the cancer has spread.

However, the scientists concluded that the small difference between black and white survival rates due to race. On average, they found that white patients survived 10 months after diagnosis, whereas the survival of the black rock for about nine months. The survival was 11.8 months in patients of other races, said the study authors.

Other “If possible, we would expect the tumor biology of” race to see whether their tumors [white] and patients [black] differ, and these differences may explain their good prognosis, “says Sehgal.