Open AccessAnalysis of Race and Gender Disparities in Mortality Trends from Patients Diagnosed with Nasopharyngeal, Oropharyngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancer from 2000 to 2017
Author(s) -
Varsha Chiruvella,
Achuta Kumar Guddati
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of general medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.722
H-Index - 36
ISSN - 1178-7074
DOI - 10.2147/ijgm.s301837
Subject(s) - medicine , hypopharyngeal cancer , incidence (geometry) , pacific islanders , demography , race (biology) , epidemiology , nasopharyngeal carcinoma , cancer , mortality rate , head and neck cancer , population , environmental health , physics , botany , sociology , optics , biology , radiation therapy
Squamous cell carcinoma of the nasopharynx, oropharynx and hypopharynx constitutes a majority of head neck malignancies. The incidence-based mortality across different races has been noted to be divergent. This study analyzes the trend in incidence-based mortality from the years 2000 to 2017 amongst both the genders in Caucasian/White and African American/Black patients.