Prostate-specific antigen, sex steroid hormones, and the insulin-like growth factor axis in U.S.-born, Jamaican, and Haitian black men: a pilot study.

doi:10.1016/j.urology.2004.04.004

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Prostate-specific antigen, sex steroid hormones, and the insulin-like growth factor axis in U.S.-born, Jamaican, and Haitian black men: a pilot study.

Urology - 1 Sept 2004

Chen Allen C, MacChia Richard J, Conway Francine, Magai Carol, Desai Manisha, Neugut Alfred I

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OBJECTIVES: African-Caribbean men have a risk of prostate cancer comparable to that of African-American men. To begin exploring potential risk factors for prostate cancer in these high-risk black subgroups, we conducted a pilot study in Brooklyn, New York, a community with large numbers of African-Americans and immigrants from Jamaica and Haiti. METHODS: Black men, 35 to 65 years of age, who were born in the...

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