‘Considerable’ progress made in cancer mortality disparities between Black, white patients

The gap in cancer mortality between Black and white individuals narrowed dramatically over the past 30 years, largely due to decreases in lung and prostate cancers among men, and colorectal and cervical cancers among women.Overall, 98 fewer excess cancer deaths per 100,000 among Black men and 22 fewer among Black women occurred from 2019 to 2023 than they did from 1991 to 1995.