Do black Americans get cancer more than other groups? What can be done?

Cancer diagnosis and death rates decreased among black Americans during 1992-1999, but black Americans still had the highest overall cancer rates of any group in this country, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The overall cancer death rate for black Americans was 30 percent higher than for white Americans.

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