Disaggregating Hispanic American Cancer Mortality Burden by Detailed Ethnicity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hispanics are the largest minority population in the United States (18%). They represent a heterogeneous and growing population. Cancer is the leading cause of death among Hispanics, yet few studies have described cancer mortality burden by specific Hispanic group nationwide.

Methods

Cancer-related deaths from U.S. death certificates for the years 2003-2012 were analyzed for decedents identifying as Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Central or South American. We calculated descriptive statistics, including potential years of lives lost (PYLL), age-adjusted rates, standardized mortality ratios, and fitted JoinPoint regression models, to evaluate annual trends by Hispanic group, using non-Hispanic Whites (NHW) as the reference population.

Results

We identifie

SUBMITTER: Zamora SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6771432 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature