Reduced Racial Disparity as a Result of Survival Improvement in Prostate Cancer.

ABSTRACT: Prostate cancer is a cancer type associated with a high level of racial and socioeconomic disparities as reported by many previous studies. However, the changes in these disparities in the past two decades have not been systematically studied. In this study, we investigated the Surveillance Epidemiology End Results (SEER) data for prostate cancer patients diagnosed during 2004-2018. African Americans and Asians showed significantly better and worse cancer-specific survival (CSS), respectively, compared to non-Hispanic white individuals after adjusting for confounding factors such as age and cancer stage. Importantly, the data indicated that racial disparities fluctuated and reached the highest level during 2009-2013, and thereafter, it showed a substantial improvement. Such a change cannot

SUBMITTER: Zhang B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10417437 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature