With equal access, African American patients have superior survival compared to white patients with multiple myeloma: A VA study

Nathanael R. Fillmore; Sarvari V. Yellapragada; Chizoba Ifeorah; Ansh Mehta; Diana Cirstea; Paul S. White; Gustavo Rivero; Andrew Zimolzak; Saiju Pyarajan; Nhan Do; Mary Brophy; Nikhil C. Munshi

doi:10.1182/blood.2019000406

With equal access, African American patients have superior survival compared to white patients with multiple myeloma: A VA study

Nathanael R. Fillmore
, Sarvari V. Yellapragada
, Chizoba Ifeorah
, Ansh Mehta
, Diana Cirstea
, Paul S. White
, Gustavo Rivero
, Andrew Zimolzak
, Saiju Pyarajan
, Nhan Do
, Mary Brophy
, Nikhil C. Munshi

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2615-2618
Number of pages	4
Journal	Blood
Volume	133
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2019000406
State	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Fillmore, N. R., Yellapragada, S. V., Ifeorah, C., Mehta, A., Cirstea, D., White, P. S., Rivero, G., Zimolzak, A., Pyarajan, S., Do, N., Brophy, M., & Munshi, N. C. (2019). With equal access, African American patients have superior survival compared to white patients with multiple myeloma: A VA study. Blood, 133(24), 2615-2618. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.2019000406

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