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Disparity in Cancer Statistics Changing
Mike Mitka
JAMA. 2002;287:703-704.
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For reasons that are not understood, black Americans have about a 33% higher death rate for all cancers than white Americans, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS).
But the disparity is shrinking. Both incidence and mortality decreased more for African Americans throughout the 1990s than for whites, said the ACS in its annual compilation of statistics, Cancer Facts & Figures 2002, released in January.
Black Americans are more likely to develop cancer and die from the disease than persons of any other racial or ethnic group profiled in the report. The report, which covers the years from 1992 to 1998, found that the average annual incidence rate for all cancer sites was 445.3 per 100 000 persons among blacks and 401.4 per 100 000 for whites. Other racial and ethnic groups were not as severely affected as either blacks or whites. The incidence rate per 100 000 persons for . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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