Head and Neck cancer mortality differs by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES). In this study of 76,095 patients, Karanth and colleagues examined the joint association of race/ethnicity and census-tract-level SES with relative survival rates, all-cause and cause-specific mortality. The five-year survival rates differed by race/ethnicity and SES, with non-Hispanic (NH)-Black patients having the lowest. Compared to NH-White patients, NH-Black patients had a higher risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality, regardless of the SES group. NH-Asian/Pacific Islander and Hispanic patients had higher risk of cause-specific mortality in some SES groups. More research is needed to understand the causes of persistent disparities in head and neck cancer mortalities

Most previous epidemiologic studies evaluating the associations of blood lipids with colorectal cancer risk did not consider the use of cholesterol-lowering medications at the time of lipid measurements, which could bias findings. Leveraging data from the UK Biobank, Yuan and colleagues showed that high...

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