Objectives: We linked databases to improve identification of American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) in determining prostate cancer death and incidence rates.
Methods: We linked prostate cancer mortality and incidence data with Indian Health Service (IHS) patient records; analyses focused on residents of IHS Contract Health Service Delivery Area (CHSDA) counties. We calculated age-adjusted incidence and death rates for AI/AN and White men for 1999 to 2009; men of Hispanic origin were excluded.
Results: Prostate cancer death rates were higher for AI/AN men than for White men. Death rates declined for White men (-3.0% per year) but not for AI/AN men. AI/AN men had lower prostate cancer incidence rates than White men. Incidence rates declined among Whites (-2.2% per year) and AI/ANs (-1.9% per year).
Conclusions: AI/AN men had higher prostate cancer death rates and lower prostate cancer incidence rates than White men. Disparities in accessing health care could contribute to mortality differences, and incidence differences could be related to lower prostate-specific antigen testing rates among AI/AN men.
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Hoffman RM, Li J, Henderson JA, Ajani UA, Wiggins C. Are you the author?
University of New Mexico School of Medicine and the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque; New Mexico VA Health Care System, Albuquerque; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA; Black Hills Center for American Indian Health, Rapid City, SD.
Reference: Am J Public Health. 2014 Jun;104 Suppl 3:S439-45.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301690
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24754659
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