Cancer death rates among Black people declined over time, but remain higher than other racial and ethnic groups
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 31, 2022
News Release
Thursday, May 19, 2022
From 1999 to 2019, rates of cancer deaths declined steadily among Black people in the United States. Nevertheless, in 2019, Black people still had considerably higher rates of cancer death than people in other racial and ethnic groups, a large epidemiologic study has found. The study was led by researchers at the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, and the findings appeared May 19 in 
