THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PROSTATE CANCER IN JAMAICA
- 1 June 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 159 (6) , 1984-1987
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5347(01)63220-8
Abstract
Conclusions These data demonstrate that Jamaican men in Kingston have a high incidence of prostate cancer, much higher than even black Americans during a similar period. Furthermore, the cancers are more significant clinically with greater morbidity in Jamaica than in the United States.Keywords
This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
- Prostate Cancer in Nigerians: Facts and NonfactsJournal of Urology, 1997
- Differences in Cancer Incidence, Mortality, and Survival between African Americans and WhitesEnvironmental Health Perspectives, 1995
- Family History and Prostate Cancer Risk in Black, White, and Asian Men in the United States and CanadaAmerican Journal of Epidemiology, 1995
- Increasing incidence of cancer of the prostate. The experience of black and white men in the Detroit metropolitan areaArchives of internal medicine (1960), 1994
- Contrasting trends of prostate cancer incidence and mortality in New Mexico's hispanics, non-hispanic whites, American Indians, and blacksCancer, 1994
- Prostate Cancer in the United States and JapanPublished by Springer Nature ,1992