Prostate Cancer Scientific Abstracts - F

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Latest Prostate Cancer Abstract

Journal: BJU International

Issue: 2006, 97(6):1190-3.

Pubmed ID: 16686710

Authors: Fukagai T, Namiki TS, Carlile RG, Yoshida H, Namiki M.

Title: Comparison of the clinical outcome after hormonal therapy for prostate cancer between Japanese and Caucasian men.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of race on the effectiveness of hormonal therapy in patients with prostate cancer, by comparing the outcomes of Caucasian men and Japanese-American men treated with hormonal therapy at one institution.

PATIENTS AND METHODS: Fifty-nine Caucasian men and 105 Japanese-American men with prostate cancer were treated with hormonal therapy at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu. Age, stage, Gleason score, race, and pretreatment PSA levels were abstracted. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to construct overall and cause-specific survival curves, which were compared using log-rank statistics. These factors were assessed as to their interdependence and correlation with the clinical course using a Cox proportional hazards regression model.

RESULTS: Although there were no statistical differences in patient background, Japanese-American men who had received hormonal treatment had a better outcome than Caucasian men for overall and cause-specific survival rate (P = 0.001 and 0.036, respectively). Race was one of the significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis (P = 0.03). The findings suggest a difference in the effectiveness of hormonal therapy for prostate cancer in Japanese-American men living in Hawaii compared to Caucasian men.

CONCLUSIONS: There were marked racial differences in clinical outcome after hormonal therapy between Japanese-American men and Caucasian men. A prospective study with more patients might be necessary to elucidate the differential effectiveness of hormonal therapy for prostate cancer in different races, especially between Japanese and Caucasians.

Contact: Department of Urology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.