Black and Asian cancer patients less likely to survive UK stem cell transplant than white peers

The study found there was a higher risk of death in the 100 days after the transplant for black and Asian patients compared with white patients. Photograph: Maskot/Getty

Black and Asian cancer patients are less likely to survive in the five years after a donor stem cell transplant than their white counterparts, according to a study and largest of its kind.

The study, published in Lancet Haematology, looked at 30,000 patients who had a stem cell transplant between 2009 and 2020 on the NHS, with 19,000 of these being cancer patients.