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Race and disparities in health.

Otis W. Brawley, +1 more
- 01 May 2007 - 
- Vol. 31, Iss: 3, pp 114-122
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This article is published in Current Problems in Cancer.The article was published on 2007-05-01. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Race and health & Health equity.

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Prostate cancer epidemiology in the United States

TL;DR: While prostate cancer remains largely a disease diagnosed in older men (over age 65), screening has increased risk of diagnosis among men in their 40s and 50s, and outcome studies suggest that many men who are diagnosed with “localized early stage disease” actually have “apparently localizedEarly stage disease,” which is really low volume metastatic disease.
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Trends in Prostate Cancer in the United States

TL;DR: Outcomes studies among men treated with radical prostatectomy show that greater than 30% serum prostate-specific antigen relapse rates are common, which suggests that many men who are diagnosed with "localized early stage disease" actually have "apparently localizedEarly stage disease," which is really low-volume metastatic disease.
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Science Surveillance and the Politics of Redress in Health Disparities Research

TL;DR: The outgrowth of an ongoing empirical study of funding policy and practice in a federal health science agency, this paper draws upon critical approaches to public health to problematize "health disparities" as mentioned in this paper.
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All Marked-Up in the Genetic Era: Race and Ethnicity as “Floating Signifiers” in Genetic and Genomic Research

TL;DR: This article examined articles that use race/ethnicity and genetic or biological markers between 2000 and 2013 within three prominent genetic journals and found that a significant percentage of publications base their research on whites only.
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Cancer disparities by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status

TL;DR: Differences in cancer incidence, mortality, and survival in relation to race/ethnicity, and census data on poverty in the county or census tract of residence are highlighted.
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