Prostate Cancer

After adjustment for clinical and nonclinical factors, the Black-White disparity in prostate cancer survival is narrowed, according to a study published online Sept. 8 in Cancer. Wanqing Wen, M.D., M.P.H., from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues examined the impact of clinical characteristics and factors related to access to care on survival by...

African-American men with low-risk prostate cancer have a significantly increased 10-year cumulative incidence of disease progression and definitive treatment than non-Hispanic White men, according to a study published in the Nov. 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Rishi Deka, Ph.D., from the VHA San Diego Health Care System in La Jolla, and...

FRIDAY, Nov. 6, 2020 — A ‘watchful waiting’ approach to care may be safe for Black Americans with low-risk prostate cancer, a new study suggests. Black patients are less likely than whites to be offered watchful waiting, also called active surveillance. This may be because compared to whites, Black men are more likely to have...

Prostate Cancer Impacts Black Patients Disproportionately Written by Gerardo Sison While the overall incidence and mortality rates of prostate cancer have steadily decreased over the past decade, the health disparities between men by ethnicity have remained unchanged. In fact, the disparities between black men and white men in the US have actually increased. The incidence...

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans live in rural areas. The United States Census definition of “rural” changes slightly from year to year, but, in general, rural areas are those that are sparsely populated and located far from urban centers.1 Demographic research indicates that rural-urban disparities in health care have widened in recent years, particularly among...

According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 1 in 9 men will develop prostate cancer at some point during their lifetime. Nearly 100% of men who are diagnosed with early-stage, localized prostate cancer will survive the disease, but this figure drops dramatically to only a 32% five-year survival among men who are diagnosed with advanced-stage...

Compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, Black men are significantly more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer and to die as a result of the disease.  Despite evidence that this uneven burden of morbidity and mortality is due in part to race-based variations in tumor biology and underlying disease mechanisms, prostate cancer...

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among American men. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2020, nearly 200,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and more than 33,000 will die from the disease in the United States alone. A disproportionate number of these deaths will occur among men from racial/ethnic minority groups, particularly...

Our partners at the Prostate Health Education Network recently hosted their Summer Summit and Dr. Brent Rose, Assistant Professor at UC San Diego Health Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences presented findings on reducing prostate cancer disparities in African American men. Visit http://prostatehealthed.org for more prostate cancer insights and watch the video below.