Gender and racial disparities in the incidence and mortality of pancreatic cancer in Mississippi State from 2003 to 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the United States, the incidence and prevalence of pancreatic cancer are well-established relative to the factors of gender and race. These rates can be seen to be dictated by biological, behavioral, socio-environmental, socioeconomic, and structural factors. This paper focused on the context of Mississippi, with a particular emphasis on racial and gender-linked mortality and incidence from 2003 to 2019.

Methods

Data were obtained from the Mississippi Cancer Registry. Specific parameters that were focused upon included the data source in the form of all cancer incidents and cancer mortality, geography in terms of cancer coalition regions, cancer sites in the form of the digestive system as a category to which pancreatic cancer belongs, and the year, ranging fro

SUBMITTER: Nduma B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10331749 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature