Prostate Cancer (Mortality)

Treatment Differences Don't Explain Higher Cancer Death Rates in Blacks

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 24th, 1998

A new study debunks suspicions that unequal health care is the root of higher death rates among black prostate cancer patients. The researchers recommend looking to biological differences and later diagnosis to resolve the disparity in survival between black and white patients.

Nationwide, prostate cancer is fatal twice as often for blacks as for whites; in North Carolina, the mortality rate for men is more than 2-1/2 that of white men, the highest in the country.

In a study reported in the July 15, 1998, issue of the journal Cancer, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, researchers surveyed 231 men (117 black, 114 white) from 63...

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