Progress in childhood cancer has stalled for Blacks and Hispanics, report says
The overall cancer death rate for children and teenagers in the U.S. in 2021 was 2.38 per 10,000 for Black youth, 2.36 for Hispanics, and 1.99 for whites.
Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those strides have stalled for Black and Hispanic youth, opening a gap in death rates, according to a new report published Thursday.
Childhood cancers are rare and treatments have improved drastically in recent decades, saving lives.
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