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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Zeynep Madak-Erdogan

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Zeynep Madak-Erdogan and her colleagues found that stress responses vary between lung cancer patients living in high-violence or low-violence zip codes. These differences likely lead to worse lung cancer outcomes in patients living in violent neighborhoods, the researchers report.

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