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Rebbeck, Timothy R
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine, 09/2018, Volume: 8, Issue: 9Journal Article
Prostate cancer (CaP) incidence, morbidity, and mortality rates vary substantially by race and ethnicity, with African American men experiencing among the highest CaP rates in the world. The causes of these disparities are multifactorial and complex, and likely involve differences in access to screening and treatment, exposure to CaP risk factors, variation in genomic susceptibility, and other biological factors. To date, the proportion of CaP that can be explained by environmental exposures is small and differences in the role factors play by race or ethnicity is poorly understood. In the absence of additional data, it is likely that environmental factors do not contribute greatly to CaP disparities. In contrast, CaP has one of the highest heritabilities of all major cancers and many CaP susceptibility genes have been identified. Some CaP loci, including the risk loci found at chromosome 8q24, have consistent effects in all racial/ethnic groups studied to date. However, replication of many susceptibility loci across race or ethnicity remains limited. It is likely that inequities in health care access strongly influences CaP disparities. CaP is a disease with a complex multifactorial etiology, and therefore any approach attempting to address racial/ethnic disparities in CaP must consider the many sources that influence risk, outcomes, and disparities.
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