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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH NIH News National Cancer Institute (NCI)
https://www.cancer.gov/ For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 5, 2022 Media Contact: NCI Press Office, 240-760-6600, <e-mail:NCIPressOfficers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> MEDIA AVAILABILITY UTERINE CANCER DEATHS ARE RISING IN THE UNITED STATES, AND ARE HIGHEST AMONG BLACK WOMEN WHAT: Deaths from uterine cancer are rising in the United States, and are highest among non-Hispanic Black women, according to a new study led by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The
higher death rates are related to the rising incidence of aggressive subtypes of uterine cancer.
The researchers found that, from 2010 to 2017, deaths of women from all racial and ethnic groups from uterine cancer overall increased 1.8% per year. Deaths from non-endometroid subtypes of uterine cancer—which are more aggressive than
endometrioid cancers—increased by 2.7% per year, whereas endometrioid cancer mortality rates were stable during this period. Black women had more than twice the rate of deaths from uterine cancer overall and of non-endometrioid subtypes compared to other racial
and ethnic groups. WHO: Megan A. Clarke, Ph.D., Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI, the study’s lead author THE STUDY: “Racial and Ethnic Differences in Hysterectomy-Corrected Uterine Corpus Cancer Mortality by Stage and Histologic Subtype” will appear on May 5, 2022, in JAMA Oncology. 10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.0009 About the National Cancer Institute (NCI): NCI leads the National Cancer Program and NIH’s efforts to dramatically reduce the prevalence of cancer and improve the lives of cancer patients and their families, through research into prevention
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