Abstract:Introduction: Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common cancer diagnosis among men in the United States. However, a vast majority of patients with PCa die of causes other than PCa, the most common being cardiovascular disease (CVD). We hypothesize that CVD-related mortality in PCa patients is disproportionately higher among Blacks as compared to Whites.
Methods: We identified patients with PCa from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked files between 1/1/2004 and 12… Show more
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