Self‐Identified African Americans and prostate cancer risk: West African genetic ancestry is associated with prostate cancer diagnosis and with higher Gleason sum on biopsy

Self‐Identified African Americans and prostate cancer risk: West African genetic ancestry is associated with prostate cancer diagnosis and with higher Gleason sum on biopsy

Abstract Concerns about overtreatment of clinically indolent prostate cancer (PrCa) have led to recommendations that men who are diagnosed with low‐risk PrCa be managed by active surveillance (AS) rather than immediate definitive treatment. However the risk of underestimating the aggressiveness of a...

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Main Authors: William E. Grizzle, Rick A. Kittles, Soroush Rais‐Bahrami, Ebony Shah, George W. Adams, Mark S. DeGuenther, Peter N. Kolettis, Jeffrey W. Nix, James E. Bryant, Ravi Chinsky, James E. Kearns, Kerry Dehimer, Norma Terrin, Hong Chang, Sandra M. Gaston
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-11-01
Series:Cancer Medicine
Subjects:
African American
prostate biopsy
prostate cancer
West African ancestry
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.2434

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https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.2434

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