Prostate Cancer (Screening)

African-Americans May Benefit from Early Cancer Screening

Published in Cancer Weekly, December 7th, 1998

Prostate cancer occurrence and death rates are higher in African-American males than in any other ethnic group in the U.S.

According to a study in the December 1, 1998, issue of Cancer (Iselin et al., "Surgical Control of Clinically Localized Prostate Carcinoma Is Equivalent in African-American and White Males," Cancer, 1998;83(11):2353-60), African-American and white prostate cancer patients who underwent radical prostatectomy (surgical removal of the gland) had similar outcomes. But when biologically aggressive disease was present, although both groups had their prostates removed, black males fared worse than white males. Early prostate cancer screening may...

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