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The development of technology that permits the identification of genetic differences and similarities among populations is forcing science to reassess its definition of race and the meaning of race in science. The President's Cancer Panel met to address this issue and to recognize that current research and treatment approaches that attempt to address racial differences in health status and outcomes have been influenced by sociopolitical perceptions of race.
Harold P. Freeman (Thu,) studied this question.