Chemotherapy: Open Access
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-7700
ISSN: 2167-7700
Ahmed Al-Naggar
In 2002, Clegg and others conducted a study to examine the cancer
survival among US Whites and minorities. Cancer specific survival
rates were analyzed for more than 1.78 million patients who resided in
the nine SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) program
geographic areas and were diagnosed between 1975 and 1997 as having
an incident invasive cancer. Survival rates enhanced between 1988
to 1997 for essentially all racial or ethnic groups. However, racial or
ethnic differences in RRs (relative risks) of cancer death persisted after
controlling for age for all cancers combined and for age organize for
particular malignancy locales. African-Americans, Hawaiian natives,
American Indian and Alaskan natives tend to have higher RRs of
cancer death than the other groups
Published Date: 2021-02-25;