Death rate disparity

Chicago: Despite declining cancer death rates, black people in the United States still died of cancer at higher rates than any other racial group, a new study shows.

Analysis published yesterday in JAMA Oncology showed black people had ‘‘considerably higher’’ cancer death rates than others in 2019.

Black people and other people of colour were also more likely to live in neighbourhoods and communities with higher environmental toxin exposures, the authors said.

Black men died from prostate cancer at five times the rate of Asian and Pacific Islander men and black women died of breast cancer at 2.5 times the rate of their Asian and Pacific Islander counterparts. — TCA