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Which, if any, aspects of your management of prostate cancer differ in your African-American patients versus those of other racial/ethnic backgrounds?

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Medical Oncology · Duke University School of Medicine

My short answer is that I do not treat patients diagnosed with prostate cancer differently based on race or ethnicity. There is data to support a higher risk of progression on active surveillance among African American men as compared with Caucasian American men with low risk prostate cancer, but th...

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