Published in the journal CANCER, the study included data for 432,640 white, 63,602 Black, 21,458 Hispanic and 8,990 Asian American and Pacific Islander patients who had their prostates removed between 2001 and 2014. The researchers gathered the data from the National Cancer Database.
After adjusting for age and year of diagnosis, researchers found that Black patients had a 51 percent higher death rate than white patients. But Asian American and Pacific Islander patients had a 22 percent lower death rate, and Hispanic patients had a 6 percent lower death rate than white patients.
The researchers also found that if Black and white men had similar education levels, median household income and insurance status, the survival disparity decreased from 51 percent to 30 percent.
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