Health Disparity Report: Cancer Incidence and Mortality in US

This report investigates cancer as a health disparity in the United States, focusing on incidence, mortality, and affected populations. The report highlights that cancer is a group of diseases characterized by abnormal cell growth with the potential to spread. It examines cancer mortality rates, which are higher in men than women. The report provides statistics on new cancer cases, cancer death rates, and the decline in cancer death rates among different age groups. It identifies the specific populations affected, including men, women, and children, and mentions common cancer types. Furthermore, the report discusses the NCI’s SEER Program, which collects and publishes cancer incidence and survival information, and highlights programs such as the Minority Training Program and the Prevent Cancer Foundation that aim to eliminate cancer disparities. The report references multiple scholarly articles to support its findings.

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Contents
Health disparity................................................................................................................................2
Population affected due to cancer....................................................................................................3
Specific program, community service.............................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................5

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Health disparity
Cancer is a group of diseases that consists of abnormal cell growth with the potential to spread
across the different parts of the body. In the research, this has been found that there are particular
groups who are affected by the disease of cancer (Siegel, Miller, Fedewa, Ahnen, Meester, Barzi
& Jemal, 2017).
Cancer mortality is even higher among the men than women that are 19.68 per 100,000 men and
139.6 per 100,000 women.
In year 2018, there was a prediction of 1,735,350 new incidences/cases of cancer that are
diagnosed in US market and 609,640 that persons will die from illness. It has been found that the
population who is specifically affected includes men, women, and children. On the other hand,
this has been found that a death rate of cancer has been decline rapidly.
According to the review report of SEER in April 2018, cancer death rates decline by
 1.8% per year among the males from the year 2006 to 2015.
 1.4% per year among females from the year 2006 to 2015.
 1.4% per year among kids with the ages of 0-19 from the year 2011 to 2015.
Further, this is the fact that cancer is considered as second major common reason of the decease
that has been found among the children with the age group of 1 to 14 years in the US which is all
after the accidents. It has been found those cancer incidence rates are improved in the children as
well as the adolescents by 0.7% since the year 1975.
The prediction for 1,762,450 cancers was diagnosed in the year 2019, which majorly equals over
than 4,800 novel cases on a regular basis. In addition, the probability of life of being identified
with cancer that is 39.3% for males and 37.7% for the females that is very little over than 1 in 3
which shows prevalence rates (Siegel, Miller & Jemal, 2019).
There is 22% of the deaths in US in 2016 that were from cancer and also making it considered
leading additional reason of decease are the fact that heart disease in both women as well as men.
US data 2004 -2008 shows that global age-adjusted occurrence of cancer was about 460 per

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100,000 women and men on a yearly basis. The disease is majorly liable for over 25% of death
in the U.S. In addition, degree of new cancer diagnoses declines by approx. 2% yearly in males
and this remained for similar in females. The death degree of cancer (2007-2016) reduced by
1.4% annually in females and 1.8% annually in males.
Population affected due to cancer
In the research, this has been found that there are particular groups who are affected by the
disease of cancer. The most common cancers that have been witnessed include breast cancer,
lung cancer, prostate cancer, calon and rectum cancer, skin cancer, kidney cancer as well as
many others (Siegel, Miller & Jemal, 2019).
In the study, this has been found that as of 2016, cancer death rate for women and men get
mutual had dropped approx. 27% from its top in the year 1991. It has been found that this
weakening interprets to approx. 1.5% and even over than 2.6 million expiries that are generally
prevented between the year 1991 and 2016.
This disease is considered as the second most common reason for the death that has been
witnessed among the children with the ages of 1 to 14 years in US that sis witnessed after
accidents. Along with this, 2019 prediction shows that 11,060 children within the age group will
be identified with cancer as well as 1,190 were expected to expire from it (Moses, 2019). In the
specific population of the US, the new cases of cancer that are registered are 439.2 per 100,000
men and females on annual basis.
On other hand, the number of cancer death is approx. 16.35 per 100,000 per year. In the year
2017, a prediction about the 15,270 children as well as adolescents ages 0 to 19 were spotted
with cancer and also 1,790 died of the disease.
Specific program, community service
NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program gather and publish cancer
incidence as well as the survival information from population-based cancer archives that usually
protect approx. 28% of population of US (Siegel, Miller & Jemal, 2019). It is witnessed that the

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SEER program website has detailed statistics related to cancer which consists of the types of
cancer, customizable tables, charts as well as communicating tools.
Minority Training Program Aims to Eliminate Cancer Disparities are there that generally help in
better treatment and also the prevention efforts that have contributed to the decline the incidences
of cancer by approximately 0.9% every year.
In the research, this has been found that Prevent Cancer Foundation is considered as the
committed preventing the cancer before it starts majorly through the four pillars which include
education, research, outreach and advocacy. These pillars help the company to eliminate cancer
from the population of the US. The foundation generally researches for cancer, its symptoms,
ways to get prevented and ways of treatment (Karavasiloglou, et al, 2019). Along with this, it
educates the people so that they can find a better way to prevent and also to detect the improved
lifestyle choices, medical screenings. Reaching out to the communities allows them to apply the
lifesaving cancer and also to detect the programs that can of the benefits to the population.
Furthermore, engaging the regulators and lawmakers is one of the pillars with the help of
education to generate awareness about cancer.

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References
Karavasiloglou, N., Hüsing, A., Masala, G., Van Gils, C. H., Fortner, R. T., Chang-Claude, J., ...
& Fournier, A. (2019). Adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund/American
Institute for Cancer Research cancer prevention recommendations and risk of in situ
breast cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)
cohort. BMC medicine, 17(1), 221.
Moses, K. A. (2019). Cancer Disparities in Men. Men’s Health Equity: A Handbook.
Siegel, R. L., Miller, K. D., & Jemal, A. (2019). Cancer statistics, 2019. CA: a cancer journal for
clinicians, 69(1), 7-34.
Siegel, R. L., Miller, K. D., Fedewa, S. A., Ahnen, D. J., Meester, R. G., Barzi, A., & Jemal, A.
(2017). Colorectal cancer statistics, 2017. CA: a cancer journal for clinicians, 67(3), 177-
193.