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No Differences in Cervical Cancer Stage at Diagnosis for Blacks and Whites in the Mountain West

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This study assesses cervical cancer disparities between Blacks and Whites in terms of stage at diagnosis in a Mountain West state. A total of 1,408 women diagnosed with cervical cancer between 1995 and 2010 were identified from the Nevada Central Cancer Registry. Logistic regression modeling examined the effect of race on stage at diagnosis in both Nevada and the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) population. After controlling for the main confounders, no significant differences in stage at diagnosis were observed between Black and White females in Nevada (aOR 0.91; 95 % CI 0.57–1.43). In contrast, Black women in SEER areas had a 21 % higher odds of being diagnosed at an advanced stage compared to Whites. Our findings suggest a favorable disparity balance for cervical cancer in Nevada where Blacks are largely recent arrivals in relation to the remaining US, where Blacks have long been established.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the Nevada Central Cancer Registry and the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health for providing data for this study. We would like to thank Dr. Zuber Mulla and Dr. Christopher Chypuros for their critical revisions of the manuscript. Paulo S Pinheiro was supported in part by grant 8 P20 GM103440-11 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences as a NV/INBRE recipient.

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El Ibrahimi, S., Pinheiro, P. No Differences in Cervical Cancer Stage at Diagnosis for Blacks and Whites in the Mountain West. J Immigrant Minority Health 17, 632–637 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-014-0149-x

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