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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