Assessing racial, ethnic, and nativity disparities in US cancer mortality using a new integrated platform.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Foreign-born populations in the United States have markedly increased, yet cancer trends remain unexplored. Survey-based Population-Adjusted Rate Calculator (SPARC) is a new tool for evaluating nativity differences in cancer mortality.

Methods

Using SPARC, we calculated 3-year (2016-2018) age-adjusted mortality rates and rate ratios for common cancers by sex, age group, race and ethnicity, and nativity. Trends by nativity were examined for the first time for 2006-2018. Traditional cancer statistics draw populations from decennial censuses. However, nativity-stratified populations are from the American Community Surveys, thus involve sampling errors. To rectify this, SPARC employed bias-corrected estimators. Death counts came from the National Vital Statistics Syst

SUBMITTER: Yu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11223878 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature