In the news: Detroit, research continues to show that cancer rates are falling across the nation. But, the data is showing that Black Americans and Women are dying at higher rates.
CA recently published an article reviewing Cancer deaths. (Read it Here)
The big picture: "This still makes no sense to me. It's 2023. We need to spend more time looking at health from an angle of greater inclusivity.
We've got to understand that some of our neighbors are getting worse care simply because of the dynamics of race and economics. We can do better." Dr. Puja Uppal, DO Board Certified Family Medicine.
What they're saying:
"In summary, although cancer mortality rates continue to decline, future progress may be attenuated by rising incidence for breast, prostate, and uterine corpus cancers, which also happen to have the largest racial disparities in mortality." (Primary Source)
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