Cancer in U.S. Hispanic populations: Patterns, trends, and clinical issues Free

PL01-03

U.S. Hispanic Latino populations are the largest minority population and growing more rapidly than any other race/ethnic group. Cancer registries have developed a reliable method to produce cancer incidence information for Hispanic populations to overcome the differing methodologies to identify Hispanic persons. This limited the comparability of rates across geographic areas within the U.S. Since 2003, NAACCR published an annual monograph on cancer rates that included cases from more than 85% of the U.S. Latino population, using a standard enhancement to Hispanic ethnicity identification, the NAACCR Hispanic/Latino Identification Algorithm (NHIAv2). Trends are now available from 1995 through 2004, and more recent methodological work is in progress to produce age adjusted incidence rates for specific Latino groups. Data will be presented showing U.S. geographic variability in cancer incidence; trends in incidence relative to current trends in the non-Hispanic white population; and preliminary results of the current project to produce incidence rates for specific Hispanic groups.