Racial Disparity in Rates of Surgery for Lung Cancer

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Abstract
Lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer in the United States, accounting for more deaths per year than cancers of the breast, colon, prostate, and cervix combined. Blacks have a higher incidence of and death rate from lung cancer than whites. The incidence rates differ significantly among men (122 per 100,000 population for blacks, as compared with 78 per 100,000 for whites), whereas the rates among black women and white women are similar. Overall, the five-year survival rate for lung cancer is 14 percent among whites and 11 percent among blacks.Some of the difference in the . . .