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Research from Duke University yields new data on cancer

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, October 26th, 2007

"'Objectives To determine whether elevated serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) values in black men are due, at least partially, to larger prostate size among black men. The study population consisted of two cohorts: (1) 1410 men undergoing radical prostatectomy between 1988 and 2005 at five equal-access medical centers comprising the Shared Equal Access Regional Cancer Hospital (SEARCH) Database; and (2) 9601 men undergoing radical prostatectomy between 1988 and 2004 at the Johns Hopkins Hospital," scientists in the United States report.

"We evaluated the association between race and serum PSA value and prostate weight using multivariable linear regression while...

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