A recent study shows significant differences in survival rates over a five-year period between blacks and whites for nine of the 10 leading cancers studied in the country.

The study covered the years 2001 to 2003 and 2004 to 2009, and draws on the 2005 world wide CONCORD2 cancer study of survival statistics for a number of cancers from 67 countries, updated in 2015.

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