CANCER FACTS FOR LATINOS

• Hispanic women have higher incidence rates of cervical (16.8 rate per 100,000), liver (5.6 rate per 100,000), and stomach (10.0 rate per 100,000) cancer compared to non-Hispanic White women (9.2 rate per 100,000, 2.8 rate per 100,000, and 5.1 rate per 100,000 respectively) (Rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population).

Source: "Cancer Facts and Figures 2004" American Cancer Society. table 1, pp. 23.

• Hispanic men have higher incidence rates of stomach and liver cancer than non-Hispanic White men (18.1 rate per 100,000, and 13.8 rate per 100,000 compared to 11.2 rate per 100,000, and 7.3 rate per 100,000 respectively), (Rates are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population).

Source: "Cancer Facts and Figures 2004", American Cancer Society. table 1, pp.23.

• Hispanics (23%) are also more likely not to have had Pap smears than their non-Hispanic White counterparts (17%). Source: "National Healthcare Disparities Report." U.S. Department of Health and Human services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. pp. 42. July 2003.

• Breast cancer (89 rate per 100,000), colon cancer (32.9 rate per 100,000), and lung cancer (24.4 rate per 100,000) are the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Hispanic women.

• Prostate cancer (137.2 rate per 100,000), colon cancer (49.8 rate per 100,000), and lung cancer (46.1 rate per 100,000) are the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Hispanic men. Source: "Cancer Facts and Figures 2004", American Cancer Society. table 1, pp.23.

• According to 2001 data, the rate of incidence for stomach cancer is more than twice in Hispanic women (9.3 per 100,000 population) than non-Hispanic White women (3.5 per 100,000 population).

Source: "Health, United States 2004 With Chartbook on Trends in the Health of Americans." National Center for Health Statistics. Hyattsville, Maryland: 2004. page 210.