This paper presents prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates in the United States by
factors associated with the disease at diagnosis and explores racial differences in these …

BACKGROUND Prostate cancer mortality rates in the United States declined sharply after
1991 in white men and declined after 1992 in black men. The current study was conducted …

Abstract The National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results
(SEER) program is used to examine the most recent data available to draw inferences about …

Background. The incidence of prostate cancer among US men increased more than five
times over the past six decades. Black men in the United States now have the world's …

The age-adjusted incidence of prostate cancer now surpasses that of all other cancers
among men in the United States (1). It was estimated for 1991 that 122,000 new prostate …

Between 1976 and 1988 in the United States, the secular trends in age-adjusted incidence
rates of prostate cancer were significantly different by racial/ethnic group (P< 0.001), and …

Objectives. Black men have a twofold increased risk of dying of prostate cancer compared to
white men. We assessed the extent to which differences in stage and grade at diagnosis …

The authors conducted a study to determine whether differences in prostate cancer survival
between White men and Black men are reduced or eliminated after accounting for …

Abstract BACKGROUND: In the United States, black males have an annual death rate from
prostate cancer that is 2.4 times that of white males. The reasons for this are poorly …

Background: Prostate cancer mortality and incidence rates have been gradually increasing
for decades in the United States, with an accelerated increase in incidence noted in the past …