Table 2.
Top 10 male age-adjusted mortality rates (per 100,000) and 5-year number of deaths (count) in NLWs, AAs, and Latinos. Priority cancer health disparity malignancies have disparity ratio, DR, >1). Incidence-based mortality data from SEER (18 Registries, November 2019 Sub, 2000–2017)
| Non-Latino Whites | African Americans | Latinos | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Site | Rank | Mortality rate | Count | Rank | Mortality rate | Count | DR | Rank | Mortality rate | Count | DR |
| Prostate | 1 | 66.63 | 92,170 | 1 | 125.6 | 19,303 | 1.89 | 1 | 51.2 | 10,477 | 0.77 |
| Lung and bronchus | 2 | 49.97 | 75,245 | 2 | 60.7 | 11,920 | 1.21 | 2 | 25.15 | 6,157 | 0.50 |
| Colon and rectum | 3 | 28.92 | 41,546 | 3 | 37.88 | 6,935 | 1.31 | 3 | 23.56 | 6,060 | 0.81 |
| Urinary bladder | 4 | 24.09 | 33,566 | 6 | 12.68 | 1,990 | 0.53 | 6 | 10.37 | 2,189 | 0.43 |
| Skina | 5 | 15.79 | 22,136 | 21 | 1.24 | 212 | 0.08 | 16 | 2.52 | 629 | 0.16 |
| Lymphoma | 6 | 14.09 | 20,030 | 8 | 10.92 | 2,181 | 0.78 | 5 | 11.55 | 3,041 | 0.82 |
| Pancreas | 7 | 11.46 | 17,479 | 5 | 13.78 | 2,840 | 1.20 | 7 | 9.6 | 2,669 | 0.84 |
| Leukemia | 8 | 10.91 | 15,398 | 11 | 8.24 | 1,529 | 0.76 | 10 | 7.13 | 2,143 | 0.65 |
| Kidney and renal pelvis | 9 | 10.39 | 15,294 | 7 | 12.31 | 2,321 | 1.18 | 8 | 9.53 | 2,566 | 0.92 |
| Liver and bile duct | 10 | 8.35 | 13,623 | 4 | 13.88 | 3,375 | 1.66 | 4 | 15.79 | 4,955 | 1.89 |
| Stomach | 13 | 5.61 | 8,325 | 10 | 10.29 | 1,956 | 1.83 | 9 | 9.42 | 2,624 | 1.68 |
| Myeloma | 14 | 5.14 | 7,496 | 9 | 10.54 | 1,903 | 2.05 | 11 | 4.96 | 1,239 | 0.96 |
aExcluding Basaling and Squamous.