Race/ethnicity and lung cancer survival in the United States: a meta-analysis

Lung cancer mortality has been shown to vary by race and ethnicity in cancer registries; however, studies often do not account for smoking status. We sought to summarize the independent contribution of race and ethnicity to survival in US lung cancer patients, accounting for important variables including smoking status. PubMed was used to identify 1,877 potentially eligible studies of which 27 were included. Studies were excluded if they did not...