Study to focus on lung cancer among minorities

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By Dagney Stuart
November 6, 2009

David Carbone, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology and Cancer Biology, has been awarded nearly $1 million in federal stimulus funds to study polymorphisms or genetic variations among minorities with non-small cell lung cancer.

Carbone and his colleagues plan to use the two-year grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to focus on African-Americans diagnosed with lung cancer.