The cancer death rate among African-Americans is dropping faster than for whites, reversing a decades-long trend, the American Cancer Society has found in an extensive examination of cancer disparities between the two populations.
New statistics revealed not only a declining death rate for African-Americans, but also the complete erasure of cancer mortality differences for men younger than 50 and women 70 and older.
Despite the positive upswing, African-Americans still have the highest cancer mortality and the lowest survival rate of any population group in the United States, according to the newly compiled data, which was posted in the online version of the organization's publication, Cancer: A Journal for Clinicians.
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