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Does black men have more aggressive prostate cancer?

A University of Minnesota study of prostate cancer tumors from Caucasian and African-American men has shown no evidence that the cancer is more aggressive in black men. Lead investigator Akhouri Sinha, a professor of genetics, cell biology, and development and research scientist at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, said the belief that black mens tumors are more aggressive is based on studies that failed to match patients properly and used only indirect means to measure tumor aggressiveness. The work will be published in Anticancer Research Sept. 21 (vol. 27, issue 5A, pp. 3135-3142)……..

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    Does black men have more aggressive prostate cancer?

    A University of Minnesota study of prostate cancer tumors from Caucasian and African-American men has shown no evidence that the cancer is more aggressive in black men. Lead investigator Akhouri Sinha, a professor of genetics, cell biology, and development and research scientist at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, said the belief that black mens tumors are more aggressive is based on studies that failed to match patients properly and used only indirect means to measure tumor aggressiveness. The work will be published in Anticancer Research Sept. 21 (vol. 27, issue 5A, pp. 3135-3142)……..

    Original post by Health news from medicineworld.org

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  • Prostate cancer more likely to return in blacks
  • Broccoli and cauliflower may halve aggressive prostate cancer risk
  • Biopsy for prostate cancer in obese men
  • More prostate cancer screening has little effect
  • No magic tomato? No benefit to prostate cancer prevention
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