Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer after skin cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death for American men, behind only lung cancer.1 The American cancer society estimates that there will be about 238,590 new cases of prostate cancer, and 29,720 men will die from the disease in 2013.Prostate cancer mortality rate is declining in developed countries, however it is not clear whether this is due to the increasing use of screening procedures based on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test, improved treatment,2 or combination of these and/or other factors. In spite of declining prostate cancer mortality, striking racial disparities in prostate cancer outcomes exist in the U.S. Compared with Caucasian men, African American are more likely to be diagnosed at advanced stage disease and die from prostate cancer in the U.S.
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