Comparing ethnicity, CaP treatment choice and mortality

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In the Journal of Clinical Oncology, a group of

investigators use the CaPSURE database to investigate the association

of pretreatment clinical factors with treatment choice, by ethnicity.

CaPSURE is a primarily community based dataset of more than 13,000 men

with biopsy-proven prostate cancer (CaP). The hypothesis was that

pretreatment clinical factors could predict variation in treatment

between African-American (AA) men, Caucasian men, and men of other

ethnicities and that this variation may explain the differences in

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