Women in Black ethnic minority groups are at greater risk of dying from uterine, (womb) cancer, latest data shows.

Natalie Darko, Associate Professor of Social Sciences and Director of Inclusion at the NIHR Leicester BRC, working with Dr Esther Moss, Associate Professor in Gynaecological Oncology in the University of Leicester’s Cancer Research Centre, and Dr Lucy Teece, Lecturer in Medical Statistics from the Department of Population Health Sciences, have highlighted the alarming discrepancy in Lancet Oncology.