Racial disparities seen in bladder cancer survival
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NEW YORK  - White Americans have a two-fold higher incidence of bladder cancer than black Americans, but the risk of death among blacks is 35 percent higher than whites when patients with the same cancer stage and grade are compared.
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People with at least some education  beyond high school have a lower cancer death risk than those  with less education, according to a U.S. study published on  Tuesday
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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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Elderly black men are only 50 percent as likely to get tested for prostate cancer as elderly white men are, says a study in the current issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine (news - web sites).
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NEW YORK  - More African-American women are being screened for breast cancer than in years past, but they're still less likely to have the disease caught early compared with white women, a new study shows.
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Melanoma may be more common in whites but the most serious form of skin cancer is deadlier in blacks and Hispanics because it is more likely to go undetected, researchers report.
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NEW YORK  - Blacks with chronic lung disease on the waiting list for lung transplantation before 2005 were more likely to die or be removed from the list than were white patients, according to New York investigators.
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Women from more deprived backgrounds have a lower breast cancer survival rate, research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Once bladder cancer invades  surrounding muscles, surgical removal of the bladder -- radical  cystectomy -- is usually deemed necessary. However, if the  disease has not spread to other areas of the body, this can  sometimes be avoided, according to Italian researchers.
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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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In a study of prostate cancer  patients living in California, most Asian men with the disease  survived longer than their white counterparts. The exception  was men from South Asia; their survival was worse than that of  white men.
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Black women with advanced breast cancer  are faring no better now than they were two decades ago despite  improved survival by white women -- and the gap appears to be  widening, U.S. researchers said Sunday.
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NEW YORK  - For African-American men, the chances of developing prostate cancer are increased if a sister has breast cancer, according to a study by researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Much of the racial and ethnic differences in the care given to patients hospitalized with a heart attack can be explained by the quality of the hospital to which patients
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NEW YORK  - An analysis of data from a Danish study shows that inflammation factors are stronger predictors of lung cancer mortality in individuals with blood type O than those with other blood types.
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TUESDAY, June 12 (HealthDay News) -- Decades after residents of a region in northern Chile were exposed to high levels of arsenic in their drinking water, they still suffer from high lung and bladder cancer death rates, concludes a study by U.S. and Chilean researchers.
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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.