Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Prostate Cancer Outcomes in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Prostate cancer (PCa) disproportionately affects African American men, but research evaluating the extent of racial and ethnic disparities across the PCa continuum in equal-access settings remains limited at the national level. The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans Hospital Administration health care system offers a setting of relatively equal access to care in which to assess racial and ethnic disparities in self-identified African American (or Black) veterans and White veterans.

Objective

To determine the extent of racial and ethnic disparities in the incidence of PCa, clinical stage, and outcomes between African American patients and White patients who received a diagnosis or were treated at a VA hospital.

Design, setting, and participants

SUBMITTER: Yamoah K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8767437 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature