Bladder Cancer
Bladder cancer mortality in the U.S. influenced by gender and geography
Published in Health and Medicine Week, April 13th, 2006
"In 2005, there were an estimated 63,210 new cases of bladder cancer and 13,180 related deaths in the U.S. African Americans reportedly have a lower incidence of bladder cancer, but a higher mortality," investigators in the United States reported.
"The objective of this study was to evaluate the gender and geographic differences in bladder cancer survival between Caucasians and African Americans to better understand the racial disparity in bladder cancer survival. Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program (SEER) data were used to evaluate racial differences in...
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