Racial/ethnic differences in the relative risk of receipt of specific treatment among men with prostate cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

African-American (AA) men have excess mortality from prostate cancer compared with White men, which has remained unchanged over several decades. The purpose of this study is to determine if race/ethnicity is an independent predictor of receipt of any definitive treatment vs. watchful waiting/active surveillance (WW/AS).

Methods and materials

Men diagnosed with prostate cancer from 2004 to 2011 were identified from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results program. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was performed to determine the relative risk ratio (RRR) of receipt of radical prostatectomy (RP), external beam radiation therapy (RT), brachytherapy, cryotherapy, or combination therapy vs. WW/AS.

Results

Compared with White men, AA men were signific

SUBMITTER: Moses KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4996674 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature