Cancer mortality rates by racial and ethnic groups in the United States, 2018-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Starting in 2018, national death certificates included a new racial classification system that accounts for multiple-race decedents and separates Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) individuals from Asian individuals. We estimated cancer death rates across updated racial and ethnic categories, sex, and age.

Methods

Age-standardized US cancer mortality rates and rate ratios from 2018 to 2020 among individuals aged 20 years and older were estimated with national death certificate data by race and ethnicity, sex, age, and cancer site.

Results

In 2018, there were approximately 597 000 cancer deaths, 598 000 in 2019, and 601 000 in 2020. Among men, cancer death rates were highest in Black men (298.2 per 100 000; n = 105 632), followed by White (250.8; n 

SUBMITTER: Haque AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10323905 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature