Researchers at UC Davis are using a new machine to study how cancer impacts minorities.
It's a full body PET scanner, which will capture images of a healthy person’s body to make the comparison to someone with cancer.
"It's very important that we are able to compare patients of the same race and ethnicity with people who don't have the disease so we can figure out what is, shall we say, normal and what is abnormal and we need to do that for all race ethnicities," Project lead Moon Chen says.
Chen tells ABC Sacramento all people aren't alike so this is a way to learn more about how cancer hits certain groups.
That way doctors can figure out how to specifically treat people in different ethnic and racial groups.
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