Epidemiology of advanced prostate Cancer: Overview of known and less Explored Disparities in prostate Cancer prognosis

Several studies have investigated potential explanations of the well-known disparate survival of African-Americans with prostate cancer compared to Caucasian patients in the United States. Using data from the Detroit SEER registry for the period 1988-1992. Schwartz and colleagues found that African-American men with localized/regional prostate cancer had a 30% lower survival than their white counterparts. The corresponding difference in survival for those with distant disease was 75% 1. These disparities in all cause-mortality were explained by socioeconomic status (SES) and treatment, but not by the differences in age and tumor grade.
Source: Current Problems in Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Source Type: research