Racial disparities persist in U.S. cancer treatment
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U.S. blacks continue to get inferior cancer treatment compared to whites, researchers said on Monday in a study showing that disparities first documented in the early 1990s persist despite efforts to erase them.
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Black people in the United States are far more likely than whites to die from strokes, diabetes and other diseases, according to a federal study that shows wide racial disparities persist in health care.
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Urinary, bowel, and sexual problems arising from surgery or external radiation treatment for localized prostate cancer persist for at least five years, a new study from the National Cancer Institute shows.
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THURSDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- Even though surgery can extend the lives of many people with esophageal cancer, only 25 percent of black Americans have  the procedure compared to 46 percent of white patients, a new study reports.
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Blacks still have a much higher death rate from cancer than whites even though U.S. cancer death rates are down overall and among blacks as well, the American Cancer Society said on Thursday.
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A combination drug targeted at African-Americans has dramatically reduced deaths from heart disease in trials, paving the way for a new debate over the potential for &quot;ethnic treatments&quot;.
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NEW YORK  - Low socioeconomic status is a strong predictor of poor survival among patients from different ethnic groups with melanoma skin cancer, new research indicates.
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The U.S. death rate from cancer has  continued a steady decline that began in the early 1990s but it  will still kill a projected 565,650 Americans this year, the  American Cancer Society said on Wednesday.
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Disparities in the US health-care system result in up to 79,000 premature deaths each year because of a lack of preventative treatments and care for chronic conditions like diabetes
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A new study gives a possible explanation for why breast cancer is more deadly in black women: they are more likely to have tumors that do not respond to the hormone-based treatments that help many others with the disease.
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The death rate from breast cancer continues to drop steadily by about 2 percent a year, but black women are not seeing the same benefits as whites, the American Cancer Society said on Tuesday.
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Death rates from cancer have   continued to drop in the United States, with Hispanics showing   lower-than-average rates of most cancers, according to the   latest statistics published on Wednesday.
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Despite significant gains in medical science, disparities in public health persist between rich and poor countries, the World Health Organization said in a report released here on Wednesday.
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Blacks with esophageal cancer fare worse than whites in just about every category, and the difference can be life or death.
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The treatment that more cancer patients receive may one day depend on their genes
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Black American women are more likely to have a hard-to-treat form of breast cancer, they get it earlier and they are more likely to die of it, researchers said on Thursday.
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Asian-Americans have distinctive patterns of cancer incidence that doctors should consider when treating them, researchers found.