In a new study published by Hyuna Sung, PhD, and colleagues in JAMA Network Open , non-Hispanic Black individuals diagnosed with a second primary cancer experienced 21% higher cancer-related death rates and 41% higher cardiovascular-related death rates compared with non-Hispanic White individuals; Hispanic individuals diagnosed with a second primary cancer also experienced 10% higher cancer-related death rates compared with non-Hispanic White individuals, but 10% lower cardiovascular-related death rates.
“These disparities were, in part, attributable to unfavorable stage distributions at second primary cancer diagnosis among Black and Hispanic populations, particularly for breast cancer, uterine cancer, and melanoma,” said Dr. Sung, Senior […]
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