Do African-American men need separate prostate cancer screening guidelines?

BMC Urology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Shenoy, Divya ^a   Packianathan, Satyaseelan ^b   Chen, Allen M ^c   Vijayakumar, Srinivasan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Prostate cancer; Screening guidelines

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; EUROPEAN; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN BLOOD LEVEL; SOCIAL PROBLEM; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BLOOD; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ONCOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84969185739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12894-016-0137-7     Document Type: Article

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