Uterine cancer mortality and Black women: time to act

Uterine cancer is the most common gynaecological cancer in the UK. Although the incidence of uterine cancer has been steadily increasing in the UK 1 and many other countries, to date it has attracted much less interest than other gynaecological cancers with regard to symptom awareness. A possible reason is that a high proportion of cases are diagnosed at an early stage, resulting in a good long-term prognosis. However, on Jan 26, 2023, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published for the first time age-standardised mortality rates for uterine cancer by ethnicity for England and Wales in 2012–19. 2 These data show substantial disparities in uterine cancer mortality, with Black ethnic groups having substantially higher mortality rates than other ethnic groups (figure).