Prostate cancer risk profiles of Asian-American men: disentangling the effects of immigration status and race/ethnicity.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Asian-American men with prostate cancer have been reported to present with higher grade and later stage disease than white American men. However, Asian-American men comprise a heterogeneous population with distinct health outcomes. We compared prostate cancer risk profiles among the diverse racial and ethnic groups in California.

Materials and methods

We used data from the California Cancer Registry on 90,845 nonHispanic white, nonHispanic black and Asian-American men diagnosed with prostate cancer between 2004 and 2010. Patients were categorized into low, intermediate and high risk groups based on clinical stage, Gleason score and prostate specific antigen at diagnosis. Using polytomous logistic regression we estimated adjusted ORs for the association of race/ethnic

SUBMITTER: Lichtensztajn DY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4051432 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature