Chapters:  Racial/Ethnic Patterns

Highlights from Chapter 6: Racial/Ethnic Patterns of Prostate Cancer Trends, 1973-1995:

• The lowest incidence rates are found in Native Americans and all other groups have lower rates than whites and blacks. The incidence rates peaked in 1992 for all groups except blacks, where it peaked in 1993.
• National mortality rates are not available for Asians and Native Americans; mortality rates are available for white-Hispanics, and their rates have not decreased as they have for blacks and white non-Hispanics.
• Stage distribution is similar across races, except the proportion with distant stage disease is higher for Hawaiians, Filipinos, and Native Americans.
• Filipino men have slightly more poorly differentiated cancers than the other groups. The proportion of tumors that are well or moderately differentiated is similar across all groups.
• Of patients with localized or regional stage prostate cancer, Native Americans have the poorest relative survival of all racial/ethnic groups. Blacks and white-Hispanics have the lowest five-year relative survival rates among patients with distant stage disease.

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