Karen Ballen, MD
Over 100 national news outlets highlighted Karen Ballen, MD, talking about the elimination of a survival gap for black cord blood recipients.
Blood cancer patients of all races who receive cord blood transplants are now living longer. This discovery, reported by a team led by oncologist Karen Ballen, MD, reveals that a previously identified survival gap among transplant recipients has been eliminated. “Outcomes for cord blood transplants are improving for patients of all racial and ethnic backgrounds,” Ballen said in a UVA news release. A new study examined over 2,600 blood cancer patients who received umbilical cord blood transplants between 2007 and 2017. The research found that Black, Asian, Hispanic, and white recipients experienced similar survival rates.
Read the full article in U.S. News & World Report.
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