Black women with endometrial cancer are 60% more likely to die from their condition than their white counterparts, according to a study published in the March issue of Cancer, Reuters Health reports. For the study, Jason Wright of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons examined national data on 80,915 patients who were diagnosed with uterine cancer between 1998 and 2004. Seven percent of the women were black.

Black women also were significantly younger at the time of diagnosis and had more advanced and more aggressive tumors than white women, according to the study. Wright said, "In our study, we noted that this survival differential has persisted over the last 15 years and there still remains a difference in survival…