Cancer Patient Survival Among Ethnic Groups in the United States

Data from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program of the National Cancer Institute were used in the evaluation of cancer patient survival experience for 8 racial-ethnic groups in the U.S. population--Anglos Hispanics blacks American Indians Chinese Japanese Filipinos and Hawaiians. This report contains an actuarial (life table) survival analysis on 402752 patients with first primary cancer diagnosed in 1973-79 and followed through December 31 1981. Relative and observed survival rates are shown for each sex separately by primary site. The authors find that female survival rates exceed those for males for each primary site except for gallbladder and urinary bladder. Differences in survival rates among the eight racial and ethnic groups are analyzed for the major cancer sites. (EXCERPT)