Increasing disparity in colorectal cancer incidence and mortality among African Americans and whites: A state's experience Full Text
Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology, 05/20/2011
Clinical Article
LoConte NK et al. –The goal of this study was to measure disparities between African Americans and whites in colorectal cancer incidence and mortality rates between 1995-2006 in Wisconsin. These results indicate that a persistent and widening colorectal cancer racial disparity exists.
Methods- Cancer incidence data obtained from Wisconsin Cancer Reporting System
- Cancer mortality data accessed from SEER
- Trends in incidence and mortality rates calculated and changes in relative disparity were measured using rate ratios
- Relative disparity in incidence grew from 1.0 in 1995 and 1.3 in 2006
- Relative disparity in death rates for African Americans widened from 1.2 to 1.5
