Black-white differences in stage-specific cancer survival: analysis of seven selected sites.

摘要: A number of researchers have noted that the black population in United States generally has less favorable cancer survival than does white population. It is not clear, however, whether this difference fully explained by differences stage disease at diagnosis. This study uses Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program data from San Francisco-Oakland (California) Metropolitan Statistical Area for years 1974-1985 to between blacks whites while controlling both age The sites examined are those which mortality considered avoidable early detection treatment, namely colon, rectum, bladder, breast, cervix, uterine corpus, prostate. Stage-specific (local, regional, remote) curves each site. site- stage-specific male rectal, prostate cancer, supplemented proportional hazards analyses, indicate no significant racial differentials. differentials persist female breast cancer. relation race more complex cervical, corpus cancer; these sites, there a some stages but all. consequences secondary intervention programs seven light findings.