Black men diagnosed with melanoma have about a 26% higher risk of dying than white men with the cancer, according to a new study
f all the major cancers diagnosed in the U.S., the skin cancer melanoma has one of thepublished in thetoday . Black men diagnosed with melanoma have about a 26% higher risk of dying than white men with the cancer, according to the study.have lower chances of surviving
than women with the disease. Researchers analyzed data from more than 205,000 U.S. men diagnosed with melanoma from 2004 to 2018, in what co-author Dr. Ashley Wysong, chair of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s dermatology department, says she believes is the largest published study of melanoma in U.S. men.
Almost 98% of the men included in the study were white, but men of color in the group had markedly lower chances of living five years or longer after their diagnoses. Among Black men, the five-year overall survival rate was roughly 52%—meaning that, within five years of their diagnoses, these men had a 48% chance of dying from any cause, including but not limited to melanoma. That’s significantly lower than the 75% five-year overall survival rate recorded among white men in the study.
One explanation for that disparity is that men of color tend to be diagnosed with melanoma later than white men. “The further along it is…the poorer overall survival is, in general,” Wysong says.
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