Rising prostate cancer rates in South Korea

被引：99
作者：
Park, Sue Kyung
Sakoda, Lori C.
Kang, Daehee
Chokkalingam, Anand P.
Lee, Eunsik
Shin, Hai-Rim
Ahn, Yoon-Ok
Shin, Myung-Hee
Lee, Choong-Won
Lee, Duk-Hee
Blair, Aaron
Devesa, Susan S.
Hsing, Ann W.
机构：
[1] Seoul Natl Univ, Coll Med, Dept Prevent Med, Seoul 110799, South Korea
[2] NCI, Div Canc Epidemiol & Genet, NIH, Rockville, MD USA
[3] Seoul Natl Univ, Coll Med, Dept Prevent Med, Seoul, South Korea
[4] Univ Calif Berkeley, Sch Publ Hlth, Div Epidemiol, Berkeley, CA USA
[5] Seoul Natl Univ, Coll Med, Dept Urol, Seoul, South Korea
[6] Korea Natl Canc Ctr, Res Inst Natl Canc Control & Evaluat, Goyang, South Korea
[7] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Sch Med, Dept Social & Prevent Med, Suwon, South Korea
[8] Keimyung Univ, Sch Med, Dept Prevent Med, Taegu, South Korea
[9] Kyungpook Univ, Coll Med, Dept Prevent Med, Taegu, South Korea
来源：
PROSTATE | 2006年 / 66卷 / 12期
关键词：
prostate neoplasm; incidence; mortality; westernization; prostate-specific antigen; South Korea;
D O I：
10.1002/pros.20419
中图分类号：
R5 [内科学];
学科分类号：
1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要：
BACKGROUND. Prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates in South Korea are relatively low, but rising steadily. METHODS. We examined age-standardized incidence and mortality trends of prostate cancer in South Korea to gain further insight into prostate cancer etiology. RESULTS. Although prostate cancer incidence has been low (7.9 per 100,000 man-years), it has increased up to 28.2% between 1996-1998 and 1999-2001. Prostate cancer mortality increased 12.7-fold over a 20-year period. Despite the increase in prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates, marked differences in rates remain for Koreans, Korean Americans, and Caucasian Americans. CONCLUSIONS. The rising rates of prostate cancer in South Korea cannot be attributed entirely to PSA screening due to the low PSA screening prevalence; this trend is most likely related to increased westernization among Koreans. Interdisciplinary epidemiological studies incorporating the collection of biological samples are needed to clarify the extent to which lifestyle and genetic factors contribute to the observed racial disparity.
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页码：1285 / 1291
页数：7
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