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Research Brief: An Examination Of The Social And Clinical Influences In Prostate Cancer Treatment In African American And White Men, Keith Elder, Bettina F. Drake, Sara Wagner, James Hebert
Research Brief: An Examination Of The Social And Clinical Influences In Prostate Cancer Treatment In African American And White Men, Keith Elder, Bettina F. Drake, Sara Wagner, James Hebert
Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice
BACKGROUND: The death rate for prostate cancer (PrCA), the most commonly diagnosed cancer in African-American (AA) men, is twice the rate of European-American (EA) men. AA men in South Carolina have the highest age-adjusted death rate in the nation. Studies have shown that treatment offered to AA men with PrCA is systematically different from that offered to EA men. METHODS: Surveys were mailed to 1,866 men in South Carolina with a diagnosis of PrCA. South Carolina men diagnosed with PrCA between 1996 and 2002 were eligible to participate. We performed a descriptive assessment of the factors that influenced …