Bladder Cancer Incidence and Survival in the United States and Texas Non-Latino Whites and Latinos

BACKGROUND: Bladder cancer (BC) poses an enormous burden on health care systems. Latinos in Texas (TX) were underrepresented in previous studies on racial/ethnic disparity of BC in the US. OBJECTIVE: To examine whether BC incidence and survival rates differ among Latinos compared to non-Latino whites (NLW) in South TX, TX, and the US SEER. METHODS: Data was collected from the US SEER Program and the Texas Cancer Registry. Annual age-specific and age-adjusted BC incidence rates and annual 5-year relative survival were calculated. RESULTS: South TX and TX had significantly lower BC incidence rates than SEER for both Latinos and NLW regardless of gender (Ps