Although prostate cancer remains the second most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second most common cause of cancer deaths in American men over age 45, prostate cancer mortality rates here in the United States have been steadily declining over the past 10 years. However, the prostate cancer mortality rate in Duval County, FL, is significantly [...]
Three-hundred-sixty-eight men with an abnormal digital rectal examination, elevated serum PSA level or both were evaluated for prostate cancer. Only 36 patients (9.8%) of the patients had commercial insurance (Table 1), indicative of a hospital serving an inner-city community. Demographic, clinical and pathologic characteristics of the study cohort are presented in Table 2. Age at [...]
Population
Shands Jacksonville is a 696-bed tertiary-care teaching hospital serving Duval County, FL (population 817,480) and northeast Florida. The current study included 373 consecutive men who underwent a transrectal ultrasound needle-guided biopsy of the prostate between January 2003 and May 2005 at Shands Jacksonville after an abnormal digital rectal examination, an elevated PSA test result (>4.0 [...]
INTRODUCTION
Despite recent advances in diagnosis, staging and treatment, prostate cancer remains the second most common cause of cancer-related death in American men older than 45 years. African-American men suffer disproportionately from the disease, having a 50% higher incidence and a two-fold greater mortality than do Caucasian men. This disparity has been variously attributed to: 1) [...]
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