Medicine and Health

Racial and socioeconomic disparities in survival improvement of eight cancers

V. Shaw, B. Zhang, et al.

This groundbreaking cohort study highlights significant disparities in cancer-specific survival rates among Black patients compared to their white counterparts, despite overall improvements in cancer-free survival from 2004 to 2018. Conducted by an expert team of researchers, this study emphasizes the urgent need for further investigation into the underlying factors contributing to these troubling differences.

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Abstract

This population-based cohort study (1,875,281 patients with eight common cancers from the SEER database) reveals that while overall cancer-free survival improved from 2004 to 2018, disparities persist. Black patients show the lowest cancer-specific survival (CSS) across several cancers, although they experienced the greatest survival improvement in many cancers from 2009-2018. However, in breast and prostate cancer, their CSS from 2014-2018 remained lower than white patient CSS from 2004-2008, even after adjusting for income, age, and stage. Further research should focus on identifying factors underlying these disparate outcomes.

Publisher

BJC Reports

Published On

Mar 11, 2024

Authors

Vikram Shaw, Baoyi Zhang, Mabel Tang, William Peng, Christopher Amos, Chao Cheng

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