PMID: 8942828Dec 1, 1996Paper

Racial differences in endometrial cancer survival: the black/white cancer survival study

Obstetrics and Gynecology
H A HillV W Chen

Abstract

To identify factors that explain a lower survival rate among black women with endometrial cancer when compared to white women. Data are from the National Cancer Institute's Black/White Cancer Survival Study, a population-based study of racial differences in cancer survival. Subjects included 329 white and 130 black women, ages 20-79 years, residing in the metropolitan areas of Atlanta, New Orleans, or San Francisco-Oakland, diagnosed with endometrial cancer from 1985 to 1987. Known prognostic factors were assessed as potential explanatory variables for the black-white survival difference using proportional hazards regression. Information was derived from interviews, abstracts of hospital and physicians' records, and a centralized review of biopsy and surgical specimens. Adjusting for age and geographic location, risk of death among black women was 4.0 times (95% confidence interval [CI] 2.8, 5.6) that of white women. Approximately 40% of this difference could be attributed to a more advanced stage at diagnosis among black women, and 23% to tumor characteristics and treatment. Further adjustment for all remaining factors reduced the hazard ratio to 1.6 (95% CI 1.0, 2.6). Eighty percent of the excess mortality among black women i...Continue Reading

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