Research Information

A researcher hard at work We search the medical journals every month for the latest research on how prostate cancer affects the African Caribbean community. Current references that we think are useful and relevant will appear. Previous references dating back to September 2003, when the Charity’s African Caribbean project was launched, can be found in the archive. If you would like to read any of the articles in full, please visit the journal publisher’s website for ordering details and costs.

Although we try to make sure that the references on this page are up-to-date and accurate, we do not accept responsibility for the content of individual articles. References are found by searching the PubMed database and a selection of the results are shown here.

February

Title: Barbers Against Prostate Cancer: A Feasibility Study for Training Barbers to Deliver Prostate Cancer Education in an Urban African American Community.

Author: Luque JS, Rivers BM, Kambon M, Brookins R, Green BL, Meade CD.

Journal: J Cancer Educ. 2010 Feb 10;. [Epub ahead of print]

Title: Single and Multivariate Associations of MSR1, ELAC2, and RNASEL with Prostate Cancer in an Ethnic Diverse Cohort of Men.

Author: Beuten J, Gelfond JA, Franke JL, Shook S, Johnson-Pais TL, Thompson IM, Leach RJ.

Journal: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 Feb;19(2):588-99.

Title: Replication of prostate cancer risk loci on 8q24, 11q13, 17q12, 19q33, and Xp11 in African Americans.

Author: Hooker S, Hernandez W, Chen H, Robbins C, Torres JB, Ahaghotu C, Carpten J, Kittles RA.

Journal: Prostate. 2010 Feb 15;70(3):270-5.

Title: 'It don't make sense to worry too much': the experience of prostate cancer in African-Caribbean men in the UK.

Author: Nanton V, Dale J.

Journal: Eur J Cancer Care (Engl). 2010 Feb 9;. [Epub ahead of print]

Title: No association between variant DNA repair genes and prostate cancer risk among men of African descent.

Author: Lavender NA, Komolafe OO, Benford M, Brock G, Moore JH, Vancleave TT, States JC, Kittles RA, Kidd LC.

Journal: Prostate. 2010 Feb 1;70(2):113-9.

Title: Evaluation of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial Risk calculator in a high-risk screening population.

Author: Kaplan DJ, Boorjian SA, Ruth K, Egleston BL, Chen DY, Viterbo R, Uzzo RG, Buyyounouski MK, Raysor S, Giri VN.

Journal: BJU Int. 2010 Feb;105(3):334-7. )

January

Title: Race, healthcare access and physician trust among prostate cancer patients.

Author: Do YK, Carpenter WR, Spain P, Clark JA, Hamilton RJ, Galanko JA, Jackman A, Talcott JA, Godley PA.

Journal: Cancer Causes Control. 2010 Jan;21(1):31-40.

Title: Initial Prostate Specific Antigen 1.5 ng/ml or Greater in Men 50 Years Old or Younger Predicts Higher Prostate Cancer Risk

Author: Tang P, Sun L, Uhlman MA, Robertson CN, Polascik TJ, Albala DM, Donatucci CF, Moul JW.

Journal: J Urol. 2010 Jan 16;. [Epub ahead of print]

Title: Distress, anxiety, depression, and emotional well-being in African-American men with prostate cancer.

Author: Nelson CJ, Balk EM, Roth AJ.

Journal: Psychooncology. 2010 Jan 14;. [Epub ahead of print]

Title: Prostate cancer risk allele specific for African descent associates with pathologic stage at prostatectomy.

Author: Whitman EJ, Pomerantz M, Chen Y, Chamberlin MM, Furusato B, Gao C, Ali A, Ravindranath L, Dobi A, Sestrehenn IA, McLeod DG, Srivastava S, Freedman M, Petrovics G.

Journal: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 Jan;19(1):1-8.

Title: Review of studies on metabolic genes and cancer in populations of African descent.

Author: Ragin CC, Langevin S, Rubin S, Taioli E.

Journal: Genet Med. 2010 Jan;12(1):12-8.

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