Segregation tied to more lung cancer deaths: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Black lung cancer patients seem more likely to die of the disease than white cancer patients in the U.S., especially those living in segregated counties, according to a new study. Researchers, who published their findings in JAMA Surgery on Wednesday, found blacks patients living in segregated counties had a lung cancer mortality rate about 10 percentage points higher than those living in diverse neighborhoods during the mid-2000s. That compared to white lung cancer patients whose lung cancer mortality rate did not seem to change between segregated and diverse …