SEER in the News Hispanic Lung Cancer Patients Tend to Live
Longer than Blacks and Whites April 26, 2012 - The journal
Cancer has issued the following press release. A new analysis
has found that Hispanic lung cancer patients seem to live longer
than white or black patients. The study suggests that, as with
several other types of cancer, certain yet-to-be-defined genetic
and/or environmental factors put Hispanic patients at a survival
advantage. Most studies that look at ethnic and racial
disparities in lung cancer compare black patients with whites.
To see how Hispanics compare with other ethnicities with regards
to survival after a lung cancer diagnosis, Ali Saeed, an MD/PhD
candidate, and Brian Lally, MD, of the University of Miami
Miller School of Medicine, led a team that analyzed patient
information from the Survival, Epidemiology, and End Results
(SEER) Database, which compiles incidence and survival data from
population-based cancer registries in the United States. The
investigators identified 172,398