Disparity Matters

Uterine (endometrial) cancer has pulled even with ovarian cancer as a leading cause of gynecologic cancer mortality, accompanied by an “alarming” racial disparity, reports Rebecca Siegel (above) of the American Cancer Society and her colleagues. Mortality patterns were similar among racial and ethnic groups until 2005, when uterine cancer mortality increased dramatically in Black women, […]

Rising rates of obesity and physical inactivity have a much greater impact on increasing the risk for endometrial cancer than for ovarian cancer. Meanwhile, major advances in treatment have improved the survival of women with ovarian cancer. while uterine cancer survival has remained stagnant for 40 years. Another reason is much less research in endometrial

“The rate of uterine cancer is increasing very significantly—about 2.5% every year—in Black women, but it’s not increasing significantly in White women,” says Cortney Eakin, MD of the University of California at Los Angeles. “If those were all low-risk, grade 1, endometrioid tumors that typically have a good prognosis, that’s one thing. But it turns