Different spatial pattern of municipal prostate cancer mortality in younger men in Spain.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Prostate cancer (PC) primarily affects elderly men. However, the specific features of cases diagnosed at younger ages (<65 years) suggest that they may represent a different clinical subtype. Our aim was to assess this suggestion by contrasting the geographical PC mortality and hospital admissions patterns in Spain for all ages to those in younger men. METHODS:The Spanish National Institute of Statistics supplied data on PC mortality, hospital admission, and population data. We estimated the expected town-specific number of deaths and calculated the standardized mortality ratios. Spatial autoregressive models of Besag-York-Mollié provided smoother municipal estimators of PC mortality risk (all ages; <65 years). We computed the provincial age-standardized rate ratios of PC hospit

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Sanchez L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6347247 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature