Racial/ethnic disparities for leukemias in Puerto Rico and the United States of America, 2015-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Leukemia is a cancer of the early-forming cells. Over the past decade, leukemia racial/ethnic disparities have been documented in the United States of America (USA). Although the Puerto Rican population in the USA represents the second-largest Hispanic population in the nation, most of the existing studies do not include Puerto Rico. We compared the incidence and mortality rates for leukemia and its subtypes in Puerto Rico and four racial/ethnic groups in the USA.

Methods

We used data from the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry and the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (2015-2019). The racial/ethnic groups studied were non-Hispanic whites (NHW), non-Hispanic blacks (NHB), Hispanics (USH), and Asian/Pacific Islanders (NHAPI) living in the USA and

SUBMITTER: Alvarado Ortiz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10191266 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature