From 2001 to 2021, the U.S. cancer death rate among young people up to 19 years old dropped 24%, from 2.75 per 100,000 to 2.1 per 100,000.
Between 2011 and 2021, the rates of cancer survival began to stagnate among Black and Hispanic children while they continued to fall 12% among white children. "The treatments are getting better and better. But as they're getting better, these disparities are opening up now," said Sally Curtin, lead author of the National Center for Health Statistics analysis.
Even as survival rates improve, cancer remains the leading cause of death by disease after infancy among children in the U.S.
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