Black patients helped by precision medicine navigators were six times more likely to receive genetic testing than those not seen by a navigator. After navigators were established in a large health care system, the proportion of Black patients referred for genomic testing rose from 19% to 58%. Genomic testing rates also rose for lower-income patients …
Men with prostate cancer who were not eligible for germline (hereditary) genetic testing were just as likely to carry pathogenic variants that could be treated as men who were eligible for this testing, according to a new study funded by a genetics testing company. And men who identified as non-White (mainly Black) men who did …
Men diagnosed with early-onset prostate cancer (at age 55 or younger) are more likely to die sooner if they’re Black, don’t have health insurance, and live in lower-income areas with high levels of people who didn’t finish high school. That’s the finding fromn the first study to investigate how socioeconomic status (SES) affects survival in …
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Less than seven percent of cancer patients in California and Georgia underwent genetic testing within two years of diagnosis, despite guidelines recommending genetic testing in the majority of patients. Allison Kurian, MD (above), of the Stanford University Medical School and her colleagues reviewed the records of nearly 1.4 million patients in California and Georgia diagnosed …
American Indian and Alaskan Native men are diagnosed with prostate cancer at higher PSA levels, have a greater incidence of metastasis at diagnosis, and are more like to die of prostate cancer than any other racial or ethnic groups, according to a study of nearly half a million patients, including over 1500 American Indian/Alaskan Native …
In a study of 616,479 men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer from 2010 to 2017, Black men, Asian men, American and Alaskan Native men, men without health insurance, men with Medicaid insurance, and men in the lowest income quartile were all less likely to be treated than White men. “The biggest message is that these …
Researchers pooled data from 10 genome-wide association studies, virtually all of the existing data on genetic risk for prostate cancer in men of African ancestry for a meta-analysis. The data were collected in the United States, Africa and the Caribbean on 19,378 men with prostate cancer and 61,620 healthy controls. The study identified nine new …
As Black men, we keep things close to the hip,” says Vincent M. Bivins, MD (above), president of Urology Centers of Alabama. “I’ve diagnosed patients with prostate cancer, and they say they’re not going to tell their wife or kids. One guy has been cured of prostate cancer for seven years, and he never told …
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Black men had a 29 percent increased risk of dying from prostate cancer, compared with White men, in studies that had only a low accounting for social determinants of health. Conversely, in studies with a high accounting for these factors, Black men had a 14 percent lower risk of dying from prostate cancer compared with …
Cases of advanced prostate cancer are increasing for the first time in 20 years, according to new data from the American Cancer Society. Cases have increased by 3 percent per year from 2014 to 2019, with the incidence rate higher among Black men compared with White men. The leading cause of this overall increase was …
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