Histologic Lung Cancer Incidence Rates and Trends Vary by Race/Ethnicity and Residential County.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Lung cancer incidence is higher among non-Hispanic (NH) blacks than among the NH white and Hispanic populations in the United States. However, national cancer estimates may not always reflect the cancer burden in terms of disparities and incidence in small geographic areas, especially urban-rural disparities. Moreover, there is a gap in the literature regarding rural-urban disparities in terms of cancer histologic type.

Methods

Using population-based cancer registry data-Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results and National Program of Cancer Registries data-we present age-adjusted histologic rates and trends by race/ethnicity and residential county location at the time of first cancer diagnosis. Rate ratios were calculated to examine racial/ethnic differences

SUBMITTER: Houston KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5884169 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature