Open AccessRacial disparities in incidence & survival of Kaposi's sarcoma in the United States
Author(s) -
Varun Kumar,
Parita Soni,
Mohit Garg,
Arsalan Talib Hashmi,
Abhinav B. Chandra
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 87
ISSN - 0971-5916
DOI - 10.4103/ijmr.ijmr_1436_17
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , hazard ratio , epidemiology , confidence interval , demography , sarcoma , pathology , physics , sociology , optics
: In the United States (US), Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is usually seen in the patients affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The racial differences in the incidence rates and survival of patients with KS have been reported in the US. We undertook this study to analyse the disparities in the race-specific incidence rate and survival of KS patients of two different races in the US based on SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) database.