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Racial differences in head and neck cancers may be explained by genetic mutations and molecular alterations Posted: 10 Dec 2013 01:00 AM PST A team of scientists at Johns Hopkins and in Texas has identified a handful of genetic mutations in black Americans, in addition to some chemical alterations affecting gene activity, which may help explain why the death rate among African-Americans from the most common form of head and neck cancer continues to hover some 18 percent higher above the death rate of whites with the same cancer.

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