Racial and Ethnic Differences in Prostate Cancer Epidemiology Across Disease States in the VA.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Prostate cancer (PC) care has evolved rapidly as a result of changes in prostate-specific antigen testing, novel imaging, and newer treatments. The impact of these changes on PC epidemiology and racial disparities across disease states remains underexplored.

Objective

To characterize racial and ethnic differences in the epidemiology of PC states, including nonmetastatic hormone-sensitive PC (nmHSPC), metastatic HSPC (mHSPC), nonmetastatic castration-resistant PC (nmCRPC), and metastatic CRPC (mCRPC).

Design, setting, and participants

This is a retrospective, population-based cohort study of male US veterans aged 40 years and older with known race and ethnicity and no non-PC malignant neoplasm before study entry receiving care through the Veterans Health Adm

SUBMITTER: Stock SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11568464 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature