TRENDS IN CANCER DISPARITIES Tracking and monitoring temporal trends in cancer disparities are crucial for evaluating efforts to reduce these disparities. However, the interpretation of how disparities have changed over time depends on whether absolute or relative differences are measured. For example, if mortality rates among two groups decrease annually by the same absolute value, […]
Much progress has been made over the past three decades in understanding, preventing, detecting, diagnosing, and treating cancer (Curry, Byers, & Hewitt, 2003; Jemal, Ward, & Thun, 2010). Cancer prevention, as a public health strategy based on research evidence, is the first line of defense in reducing the number of deaths resulting from cancer. It […]