Black women more likely to die of uterine cancer

According to new research, black women with uterine cancer are more likely to die than white women.

Black women in the study lived a median of 10.6 months following treatment, compared to 12.2 months among whites. And they were 26 percent more likely to die than white women, Dr. G. Larry Maxwell and his colleagues at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. reported.
“When response to treatment was analyzed, blacks appeared to have lower tumor response to each of the chemotherapy regimens employed in the trials,” they wrote in their report, published in the journal Cancer.

Researchers also noted that “while the causes of this survival difference remain to be elucidated, socioeconomic, biologic and cultural etiologies may be involved.”
Uterine cancer kills 7,300 women a year in the United States.