Table 1.

Correlation between cancer-specific funding-to-lethality ratios and cancer incidence and mortality stratified by race and ethnicity^a

Race	Funding to lethality: incidence	Funding to lethality: mortality
Hispanic	0.52	0.41
Non-Hispanic American Indian Alaska Native	0.57	0.37
Non-Hispanic Asian and Pacific Islander	0.25	0.33
Non-Hispanic Black	0.45	0.44
Non-Hispanic White	0.84	0.69

^aThese data represent Spearman rank correlation coefficients assessing the correlation between funding-to-lethality ratio for a given cancer (ie, x axis on a scatter plot) plotted against incidence (or mortality) for a given cancer (ie, y axis on a scatter plot), stratified by race and ethnicity. For example, there was a strong correlation between the funding-to-lethality ratio and cancer incidence among non-Hispanic White individuals suggesting that funding relative to lethality was increased as the incidence of the disease increased among non-Hispanic White patients. However, this correlation was weak to moderate among non-Hispanic Black individuals, suggesting limited correlation between the incidence of the cancer among non-Hispanic Black patients and the funding relative to lethality.