Nation IN BRIEF : NATIONWIDE : Black Men’s Cancer Rates Up, Study Says

Cancer rates have increased slightly for black men, still the Americans most likely to get and die of cancer, according to a National Cancer Institute study. The study found that black men had a general cancer rate of 560 cases per 100,000 people and a cancer death rate of 319 per 100,000. Statistics released last year showed a cancer rate of 557 per 100,000 and a cancer death rate of 316 per 100,000 for black males. The National Cancer Institute included the data in an annual report called the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results program, covering statistics from 1988 to 1992. Black males had the highest rate of prostate cancer, at 180.6 per 100,000. Lung cancer was the most frequent cause of cancer death among black men, at 105.6 per 100,000.