Clinical Characteristics and Biopsy Specimen Features in African-American and White Men Without Prostate Cancer
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Prostate cancer and African-American men.
Mortality from prostate cancer is two to three times greater among African-American men between the ages of 50 and 70 than among American Caucasian men of similar ages. Also, African-Americans tend to present with more advanced tumors than their American Caucasian counterparts. This article explores differences between the two races that may account for the disproportionately high mortality amo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Urology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0022-5347,1527-3792
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5347(01)62147-5