Compared to Asian patients, a new study reveals black people with cancer are more likely to have metastatic disease.<br />According to UPI, black cancer sufferers are at 14% greater risk for having their disease metastasize prior to diagnosis.<br />JAMA Network Open researchers said the case is particularly true in cancers of the esophagus and colon.<br />The authors said the reason for these racial disparities may be "shortages of physicians and medical centers in communities of color."<br />Compared with Asian patients, white patients had poorer survival rates for cancer of the prostate, stomach, pancreas, lung, liver, and colon.<br />Black patients had worse survival rates in all nine cancers studied.
