East meets West: ethnic differences in prostate cancer epidemiology between East Asians and Caucasians

Prostate cancer is the most prevalent cancer in males in Western countries. The reported incidence in Asia is much lower than that in African Americans and European Caucasians. Although the lack of systematic prostate cancer screening system in Asian countries explains part of the difference, this a...

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Main Author: Kimura, Tomomi
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777503/