Racial and socioeconomic disparities in survival improvement of eight cancers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many studies have characterized racial differences in cancer outcomes, demonstrating that black and Hispanic patients have lower cancer-specific survival compared to white patients. However, to our knowledge, a gap in the literature exists regarding racial, socioeconomic, age, and sex-related differences in survival improvement in cancer.

Methods

We perform a population-based cohort study of 1,875,281 patients with eight common cancer sites from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database.

Results

The longitudinal data demonstrates that while overall cancer-free survival has improved from 2004 to 2018, certain groups have seen lower rates of improvement. Black patients have the lowest cancer-specific survival (CSS) in breast, prostate, o

SUBMITTER: Shaw V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11524065 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature