Investigating racial and ethnic disparities in vulvar squamous cell carcinoma: A retrospective cohort analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database

To the Editor: Vulvar squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) accounts for 5% of cancers of the female reproductive tract, with incidence and mortality rates continuing to rise.1 If diagnosed early, vulvar SCC is highly curable with a survival rate of 90% in the absence of lymph node involvement.2 Previous studies have evaluated racial disparities in survival outcomes of White and Black patients3; however, there is a paucity of literature examining such disparities across racial and ethnic cohorts outside these 2 groups. Here, we aimed to assess racial and ethnic disparities in disease-specific survival (DSS) outcomes of patients diagnosed with vulvar SCC in a more diverse, expanded cohort.