According to the American Cancer Society, Black women have the highest death rate and shortest survival rate as compared to other races/ethnicities in the United States for most cancers. This is in part due to socioeconomic barriers that restrict these women's access to timely, appropriate, and high quality health care, and also to more aggressive histology of this cancer found in African American women.

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Black women are more likely to be diagnosed with uterine cancer at a later stage and with more aggressive subtypes.

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• African American women are three times more likely to have an unfavoralble subtype and an associated five-year survival rate that is 40-50% less among women with and endometrioid subtype

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• 41% of uterine cancers in black women are found to have spread to nearby lymph nodes, tissues, organs, or distant parts of the body compared to 27% in white women

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• 23% of African American women are more likely to have uterine sarcomas compared to 9% of white women, 3% more likely to have clear cell carcinomas vs. 2% for white women, and 12% to have serous carcinomas vs. 5% for white women

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• Studies have also found that 27% of African Americans present with Stage III or IV disease, while only 14% of white women do

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• The five-year survival rate for uterine cancer is 62% in black women compared to 83% in white women

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• Five-year mortality rate is 39% among black women compared with 20% among white women