The disparity in cancer mortality rates between black and white Americans shrunk significantly in recent decades, according to a new report.
It's been a topic addressed by Democratic presidential candidates Senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Cory Booker: racial disparities in health care. A new study reveals that in at least one area of health, that disparity is starting to change.
Carol DeSantis, lead study author and cancer epidemiologist at the ACS, chalked the shrinking mortality disparity up to plummeting death rates for African Americans with lung, prostate and colorectal cancers, which are the three most common forms of the disease. "The closing of the gap speaks not only to better therapies for treating cancer, but it is also the result of better access to these therapies and advances for groups who often have worse outcomes from cancer, including black patients, and patients who are uninsured or under-insured," he said.
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