Cancer Survival Depends on Where You Live or Your Skin Color
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Your odds of surviving cancer depend on which country you live in. And, in the United States, it also depends on whether you're black or white, a new study finds.
Economic differences among countries, access to health care, and the availability of cancer treatments feed the disparities in survival, the report said.
"There is a very wide global range in the odds of survival after a cancer diagnosis," said lead researcher Michel Coleman, a professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Great Britain. "Some of the range is understandable on the basis of the relative wealth of these countries," he added.
The study also confirms the disparity in cancer survival among blacks and whites in the United States, Coleman said. "The differences are large across the U.S.A., and even in different metropolitan areas," he said.
... there's a big disparity in cancer survival rates between whites and blacks in the United States, and it favors whites.
Economic differences among countries, access to health care, and the availability of cancer treatments feed the disparities in survival, the report said.
"There is a very wide global range in the odds of survival after a cancer diagnosis," said lead researcher Michel Coleman, a professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Great Britain. "Some of the range is understandable on the basis of the relative wealth of these countries," he added.
The study also confirms the disparity in cancer survival among blacks and whites in the United States, Coleman said. "The differences are large across the U.S.A., and even in different metropolitan areas," he said.
... there's a big disparity in cancer survival rates between whites and blacks in the United States, and it favors whites.
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