A paper by Gupta and Akinyemiju (2024) uses SEER data to examine trends in age-adjusted cancer mortality between blacks and whites between 2000 and 2020. The authors find that:
In 2000, the [age-adjusted mortality] rate was 251.7 per 100 000 population among Black individuals and 199.7 per 100 000 population among White individuals, decreasing to 166.8 per 100 000 population (AAPC, −2.04% [95% CI, –2.07% to –2.00%]) and 149.3 per 100 000 population (AAPC, −1.44% [95% CI, –1.48% to –1.39%]), respectively, by 2020 (P < .001 for trend). Between 2000 and 2020, declines in cancer mortality were observed for each cancer type for both groups. However, Black individuals consistently experienced higher mortality than White individuals for all cancers except female lung and bronchus.
The full article is here.
