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Study: Black men have better radiation therapy outcomes for prostate cancer

by City News Service • December 29, 2021 23 Comments

A study published Wednesday by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that Black men undergoing radiation therapy for prostate cancer may have better outcomes than white men, despite the former being at higher risk for the cancer.

The results, which were published Wednesday, Dec. 29, in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, were found in what researchers believe to be the largest meta-analysis of its kind on the subject.

“These results provide high-level evidence challenging the common belief that Black men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer will necessarily have a worse prognosis than white men,” said the article’s co-senior author Dr. Amar Kishan, a researcher and associate professor and vice chair of clinical and translational research in the Department of Radiation Oncology at UCLA.

Kishan called the finding particularly important, as unfounded beliefs can inadvertently contribute to “cancer injustice,” which he said leads “to the use of more aggressive treatments than might be necessary — potentially reducing quality of life — and diverting attention away from other important factors that can influence outcome.”

Black men are more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than white men and have a two-fold increased risk of dying from the cancer, according to co-author Dr. Ting Martin Ma, a researcher and resident physician in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. The meta-analysis found that Black men were significantly younger and more likely to have high-risk disease at the time of treatment, but they had lower recurrence, metastatis and prostate cancer-specific mortality rates than white men.

After statistical adjustments were made for age and other factors, the authors found that “race remained significantly associated with improved BCR, DM and PCSM outcomes.”

“The fact that Black men had improved early and late disease outcomes when compared with white men is a novel and unexpected result that highlights that Black men may have an improved response to their initial treatment,” the study said. “These results do not suggest that there are no biological differences that might drive differences in prostate cancer incidence between racial groups,” the authors said. “In fact, it is possible that the association with differential treatment response that is noted might be, at least in part, explained by differences in underlying biology.”

During the meta-analysis, researchers reviewed data of 8,814 patients from seven randomized clinical trials on radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Of the total, 1,630 men were Black and 7,184 were white. The Black participants had a median age of 68, while the white patients’ median age was 71. The Black patients were also significantly more likely to have high-risk disease, UCLA said.

The trials’ patients received either standard or high-dose radiation therapy, while some also underwent short- or long-term androgen deprivation therapy.

Ma added that the studies’ participants were enrolled in trials in which they all received the same treatment. However, the equity in access to care and receipt of treatment is not representative of the general population. Ma said that previous studies found that death due to prostate cancer was similar for Black and white men, under conditions in which there is equal access to care and standardized treatments.

“Here we studied early metrics of response to treatment, including biochemical recurrence … or development of distant metastasis in men with localized prostate cancer, which is also the predominant disease state patients present with,” Ma said. “This information will help us identify potential drivers and mitigators of disparities in prostate cancer care.”

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23 comments for "Study: Black men have better radiation therapy outcomes for prostate cancer"

  1. Thomas Noah says

    January 4, 2022 at 4:40 pm

    I have had prostatitis for years. I have managed to control it with Cipro (weeks at a time) NO beer or alcohol no more smoking–ejaculation at least once a week–warm heating pad for an hour or two while on medicine watching TV–plenty of water and a balanced diet–still have the frequency of urination but very little pain, I stopped using this routine after I saw several healing comments from different patients I became one of the lucky ones. It is true, no medical doctor has a cure. And you can try all the drugs in the world, nothing will really help. So what needs to be done is, a cure in nature has to be found that was what I did with @ “Molemen Herbs” and just after 14 days of using these products which I ordered from ” Molemen Herbs” my symptoms went from excruciatingly severe and debilitating to moderate/mild-ish. I am completely fine and I suggest you guys try @Molemen Herbs.

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  2. All You Need to Know says

    January 1, 2022 at 6:23 pm

    “A study published Wednesday by researchers at the UCLA”

    Reply
  3. William says

    December 30, 2021 at 5:47 pm

    Well, good for them to have an advantage now and then.

    Do you here porr little white boys whining?

    Reply
    • Alby says

      December 30, 2021 at 11:53 pm

      Ooh. my prostate feels discriminated.

      Reply
      • [Removed] says

        December 31, 2021 at 4:56 pm

        It should.

        Reply
        • Flesh Gordon says

          December 31, 2021 at 5:51 pm

          Were you looking right at it when you noticed that?

          Reply
          • Ouch says

            December 31, 2021 at 6:38 pm

            Uuuhhmm ya! Uuuh what? Next question.

          • Tim Scott says

            January 1, 2022 at 5:57 pm

            Okay that was hilarious…and as a guess Alby does have a close view of his prostate.

          • Oucho Marx says

            January 2, 2022 at 6:15 pm

            In the midst of other faces, I tried.

    • Anon says

      December 31, 2021 at 9:16 pm

      Willam has proven again to be prime cuck material,
      Here’s to another year with no squeeze looser.

      Reply
      • William says

        January 1, 2022 at 2:47 pm

        Speaking of cucks.

        Republican men are cuckholds for Trump.

        What’s that say about Republican women?

        Republican men “Here Mr. Trump, let me hold your coat while you grab my wife.”

        Republican woman, “Oh, boy. Just what I need.”

        Reply
        • America's Most Independent Conservative says

          January 1, 2022 at 3:22 pm

          LOL. That’s creative. I’ll tell my GOP wife.

          BTW: I answered Anon appropriately, but apparently it wasn’t fit to print.

          Reply
        • Lorie says

          January 2, 2022 at 8:50 pm

          William,

          I think the term you may be looking for is Qucks — emphasis on the “Q” of course.

          Reply
  4. Alby says

    December 30, 2021 at 2:56 pm

    Lets see all the responses if it said “White men have better…this or that.” Anything “white” is considered demonic nowadays. So be it Gotta love the perpetuating media.

    Reply
    • William says

      January 3, 2022 at 11:25 am

      Listen Alby, before you die, you might want to appreciate what it must be like to ba a black person in this either 150 years ago or currently.

      Imagine what it must be like to be a black person and have to listen to people like you all their lives.

      Reply
      • Beecee says

        January 3, 2022 at 1:38 pm

        Enlighten us Mr. 150 year old black guy….

        Reply
        • William says

          January 3, 2022 at 4:36 pm

          You are one of the people that needs to learn what it’s like to be black too, selfish b****.

          Reply
          • Beecee says

            January 3, 2022 at 5:29 pm

            Well at least tell us how it is being a 150 year old,
            Lol

      • America's Most Flagged for Moderation says

        January 3, 2022 at 1:58 pm

        But you could always find a job in TV commercials.

        Reply
  5. A. Anaya says

    December 30, 2021 at 2:35 pm

    Notice how the AV Times capitalizes the “b” when referring to blacks, but leaves the “w” lowercase when referring to whites.

    Reply
    • FatWhiteBob says

      December 30, 2021 at 4:39 pm

      The AV Times is clearly biased. Tim and William are proof of that.

      Reply
  6. M. R. says

    December 30, 2021 at 2:33 pm

    Wait….? I thought that “race was a social construct with no basis in biology” ?

    That’s what the Left wants us to believe anyway, is it not?

    Reply
  7. Cynic says

    December 30, 2021 at 12:20 pm

    Well clearly, the treatment centers are systemically racist against whites. Discrepancy=racism, right?

    Reply

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