American Cancer Society: Study Puts Price Tag on Lost Earnings From Racial Disparities in Cancer Mortality
June 04, 2020
June 04, 2020
ATLANTA, Georgia, June 4 -- The American Cancer Society issued the following news release:
A new American Cancer Society study puts a price tag on racial disparities in cancer mortality, finding that $3.2 billion in lost earnings would have been avoided in 2015 if non-Hispanic (NH) blacks had equal years of life lost from cancer deaths and earning rates as NH whites. The study appears in JNCI Cancer Spectrum.
Little is known about disparities in economic burden due to p . . .
A new American Cancer Society study puts a price tag on racial disparities in cancer mortality, finding that $3.2 billion in lost earnings would have been avoided in 2015 if non-Hispanic (NH) blacks had equal years of life lost from cancer deaths and earning rates as NH whites. The study appears in JNCI Cancer Spectrum.
Little is known about disparities in economic burden due to p . . .