Racial, Ethnic Differences in Uterine Cancer Mortality Rates - For The Media

JAMA Oncology

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About The Study: This study of 208,000 women showed annual increases in uterine cancer mortality rates from 2010 to 2017 of 6.7% among Hispanic women, 3.5% among Black women, 3.4% among Asian women and 1.5% among white women, irrespective of histologic subtype or stage at diagnosis.

Authors: Megan A. Clarke, Ph.D., M.H.S., of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, is the corresponding author.

(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.0009)

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