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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(18):1356-1357; doi:10.1093/jnci/djm154
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Published by Oxford University Press 2007.

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Untangling Differences in Cancer Mortality Rates: A Closer Look at Race and Education

Sholom Wacholder

Correspondence to: Sholom Wacholder, PhD, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Blvd, EPS 8046, MSC-7244, Rockville, MD 20892-7244 (e-mail: wacholds@mail.nih.gov).

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In this issue of the Journal, Albano et al. (1) draw attention to the association between education and cancer mortality overall and for the most common sites among white men and women and among black men and women. Their effort to cull the information on educational level from death certificates adds to the wealth of descriptive data on racial disparities in cancer mortality in the United States. However, the authors are not able to address with confidence a question that many readers will ask: do differences in education explain racial differences in cancer mortality?

Albano et al. (1) show age-adjusted cancer mortality rates by . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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