Epidemiology

Cancer-specific mortality only modestly increased among blacks compared with whites

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 21st, 2002

Cancer-specific mortality is only modestly increased among blacks compared with whites who receive comparable treatment for similar-stage cancer in the United States, according to an article in the April 24, 2002, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Peter B. Bach, MD, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, and colleagues reviewed articles from the medical literature to determine if there is evidence of differences in survival between black patients and white patients who received the same treatments for similar stages of cancer.

According to background information cited in the article, blacks with...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2002-05-21)

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