The National Cancer Data Base report on cancer in Hispanics. Relationships between ethnicity, poverty, and the diagnosis of some cancers.
BACKGROUND
Previous Commission on Cancer studies have examined time trends in stage of disease, treatment patterns, and survival for special populations. Reported herein are the most current National Cancer Data Base data for Hispanics.


METHODS
Two Calls for Data have yielded a total of 23,650 cancer reports for Hispanics from hospitals across the country.


RESULTS
There were differences in the relative frequency with which different cancer sites were reported among different Hispanic sub-populations. For seven of eight types of cancers studied, Hispanics had a less favorable stage of disease at first diagnosis than non-Hispanic whites.


CONCLUSIONS
Poverty may be an important factor affecting the outcome of different cancers. Ethnicity may have a different and additional impact on patients with cancer.
Villar
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University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson.
Menck
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D016208:Databases, Factual; D003710:Demography; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000628:therapy; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011203:Poverty; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology