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THURSDAY, June 5 (HealthDayNews) --
More white women develop uterine cancer, but more black women die from it.
A study that appears in the June 4 online issue of Cancer also found black women have much higher rates of rare, aggressive kinds of uterine cancer. Black women were 1.85 times more likely than whites to develop serous/clear cell, 2.33 times more likely to develop carcinosarcomas, and 1.56 times more likely to develop sarcomas.
Survival and death rates were much worse for black women compared to white women for every type of uterine cancer, regardless of stage, grade or age at the time the cancer was diagnosed, the study found.
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For example, the five-year survival rate for common, indolent types of endometrial adenocarcinoma was 89.9 percent for whites and 69.1 percent for blacks.
The study found that rare, aggressive cancers accounted for 53 percent of tumor-related deaths among black women, compared to 36 per cent for white women.
However, overall incidence of uterine cancer was much lower in black women and white Hispanics than in white, non-Hispanic women.
The study authors analyzed data from more than 20,000 women with uterine cancer reported in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program between 1992 and 1998.
More information
Here's where you can learn more about uterine cancer (health.nih.gov).
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