The American Cancer Society (ACS) today released Cancer Statistics for African American and Black People, 2025. According to the report, the cancer mortality rate declined from 1991 to 2022 by 49% and 33% in Black men and women, respectively, in the United States. However, African American and Black people continue to have a disproportionately elevated cancer burden compared to other population groups.
According to the study, the risk of cancer death for Black individuals is two-fold that of White individuals for myeloma, prostate, uterine corpus (endometrial), and stomach cancers, and 40%-50% higher for colorectal, breast, cervical, and liver cancers.
Similarly, survival is lower in Black people than in White people for almost every type and stage of cancer, with the largest gaps for melanoma, uterine corpus, and cervical cancers.
These important findings are published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians and available on cancer.org.
