Patient education may reduce PCa mortality rates among African-Americans

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Chicago-African-American men with clinically localized prostate cancerhave poorer overall and cancer-specific survival rates compared with similarwhite patients, according to results of a retrospective study. This disparitycan be substantially explained by differences in socioeconomic status andlower rate of surgical treatment among African-Americans.

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