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Expert Opinion / Interview · August 01, 2013

Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer in African-American Men

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Edward M. Schaeffer MD, PhD

 

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  1. Sundi D, Ross AE, Humphreys EB, et al. African American Men with very low-risk prostate cancer exhibit adverse oncologic outcomes after radical prostatectomy: should active surveillance still be an option for them? [published online ahead of print June 17, 2013]. J Clin Oncol. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2012.47.0302.

  2. National Cancer Institute. Cancer Health Disparities. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, US Dept of Health and Human Services; 2008. NCI publication F138. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/disparities/cancer-health-disparities

  3. Sundi D, Kryvenko ON, Carter HB, et al. Pathologic examination of radical prostatectomies in men with very-low risk disease at biopsy reveals distinct zonal distribution of cancer in African American men [published online ahead of print June 13, 2013]. J Urol. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2013.06.021.

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