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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine2018

Prostate Cancer Disparities by Race and Ethnicity: From Nucleotide to Neighborhood.

Timothy R Rebbeck

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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89citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

89 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 129 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Clinical outcomes in men of diverse ethnic backgrounds with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology · 2020
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  12. Deep Sequencing Reveals Novel Mutations inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  15. Variation in PSA Levels by Age, Adiposity, Race and Ethnicity, and Genetic Risk: Implications for Prostate Cancer Screening.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2025
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  20. Age limit for familial prostate cancer screening.Caspian journal of internal medicine · 2025
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29 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Timothy R RebbeckDana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02215.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prostate cancer (CaP) incidence, morbidity, and mortality rates vary substantially by race and ethnicity, with African American men experiencing among the highest CaP rates in the world. The causes of these disparities are multifactorial and complex, and likely involve differences in access to screening and treatment, exposure to CaP risk factors, variation in genomic susceptibility, and other biological factors. To date, the proportion of CaP that can be explained by environmental exposures is small and differences in the role factors play by race or ethnicity is poorly understood. In the absence of additional data, it is likely that environmental factors do not contribute greatly to CaP disparities. In contrast, CaP has one of the highest heritabilities of all major cancers and many CaP susceptibility genes have been identified. Some CaP loci, including the risk loci found at chromosome 8q24, have consistent effects in all racial/ethnic groups studied to date. However, replication of many susceptibility loci across race or ethnicity remains limited. It is likely that inequities in health care access strongly influences CaP disparities. CaP is a disease with a complex multifactorial etiology, and therefore any approach attempting to address racial/ethnic disparities in CaP must consider the many sources that influence risk, outcomes, and disparities.

Indexed as

Health Status DisparitiesBlack or African AmericanGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenome-Wide Association StudyGeography, MedicalHealth Services AccessibilityHumansMalePrognosisProstatic Neoplasms

Identifiers

PMID29229666
PMCPMC6120694
OpenAlexW2772288239

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