CHICAGO (Reuters) - Blacks with rectal cancer are 23 percent less likely to get chemotherapy than whites, even when they see a cancer specialist, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

They also found that blacks were 12 percent less likely to get radiation therapy than whites. The study is the latest to show that blacks in the United States get less treatment for cancer than whites and are more apt to die from their cancers.

Both blacks and whites in the study saw cancer specialists at about the same rate, suggesting that reasons other than access to a specialist may be playing a role.

FRIDAY, March 14 (HealthDay News) -- Minority and low-income Americans with insulin-treated diabetes are less likely to monitor their blood glucose than other diabetics, a new study shows.

EmpowHer Asks: If heart disease effects ethnicities differently, does the FDA -- the Food and Drug Administration -- encourage drug companies to present data across all of the demographic groups?