A paper by Gupta and Akinyemiju (2024) Use SEER data to examine trends in age-adjusted cancer mortality between 2000 and 2020 among blacks and whites. The author found:
2000, [age-adjusted mortality] There were 251.7 cases per 100,000 among blacks and 199.7 cases per 100,000 among whites, down to 166.8 cases per 100,000 (AAPC, -2.04%) [95% CI, –2.07% to –2.00%]) and 149.3 per 100,000 population (AAPC, -1.44% [95% CI, –1.48% to –1.39%]), by 2020 (phosphorus< .001 indicates a trend). Cancer death rates fell for every cancer type between 2000 and 2020 in both groups. However, blacks consistently have higher mortality rates than whites from all cancers except lung and bronchial cancers in women.
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