A commentary in Renal and Urology News this morning is entitled “Gleason 6 prostate cancer is more lethal in black men”. … READ MORE …
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A newly published paper has now suggested that data from a single PSA test carried out when the men are between 40 and 64 years of age can be used to project risk for aggressive prostate cancer among African-American men. … READ MORE …
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A newly published article in the British Medical Journal has shown that black males in England are twice as likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer as white males, and are twice as likely to die of prostate cancer too. … READ MORE …
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The issue of treatment regret comes up regularly among men after first-line treatment for localized prostate cancer, but has been less commonly addressed among men with recurrent disease post-treatment. … READ MORE …
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We have known for some time that regular exercise may lower risk for prostate cancer. Indeed, a study by Clarke and Whittemore published in 2000 suggested that men who take little to no exercise may be 1.7 times more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than those who exercise with a degree of regularity. … READ MORE …
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In a number of papers dating back to the 1990s, Moul and colleagues clearly demonstrated that simply being African American places men with prostate cancer at greater risk for biochemical progression after surgical treatment than men of white race — even in an equal access health care system like that of the US military. … READ MORE …
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A review article on issues affecting perceptions of prostate cancer among Black men of African, Afro-Caribbean, and African American ethnicity has highlit the very limited data available about prostate cancer, its diagnosis, and its management in males from specific ethnic groups inside and outside the USA. … READ MORE …
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A newly published article, available on-line in the journal Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, shows that tissues from prostate biopsies from black men express higher levels of biomarkers for aggressive disease than do tissues from prostate biopsies taken from white men. … READ MORE …
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