• Am J Public Health · Oct 2003

    Multicenter Study Comparative Study

    Stage at diagnosis and survival in a multiethnic cohort of prostate cancer patients.

    • Ingrid Oakley-Girvan, Laurence N Kolonel, Richard P Gallagher, Anna H Wu, Anna Felberg, and Alice S Whittemore.
    • Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5405, USA.
    • Am J Public Health. 2003 Oct 1; 93 (10): 1753-9.

    ObjectivesWe evaluated the effects of socioeconomic status and comorbidity on stage of disease and survival among 1509 population-based prostate cancer patients.MethodsWe applied logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards regression to data from Whites, African Americans, and Asian Americans who were diagnosed from 1987 to 1991.ResultsPatients with existing comorbid conditions were less likely than those without these conditions to be diagnosed with advanced cancer. Compared with Whites, African Americans (odds ratio [OR] = 1.5; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.1, 2.2) and foreign-born Asian Americans (OR = 1.6; 95% CI = 1.0, 2.4) were more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancer. Among men with localized disease, prostate cancer death rates were higher for African Americans than for Whites (death rate ratio = 2.3; 95% CI = 1.2, 4.7).ConclusionsThese findings support the need for further investigation of factors that affect access to and use of health care among African Americans and Asian Americans.

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