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Literacy, race, and PSA level among low-income men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer

2006; Elsevier BV; Volume: 68; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.urology.2006.01.064

1527-9995

Michael S. Wolf, Sara J. Knight, E. A. Lyons, Ramón Durazo-Arvizú, A. Simon Pickard, Adnan Arseven, Ahsan M. Arozullah, K. M. Colella, Paul S. Ray, Charles L. Bennett,

Health Literacy and Information Accessibility

Among men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels are higher and the cancer stage more advanced for African Americans than for whites. An earlier study found that after adjustment for literacy, race was no longer a significant predictor of advanced stage at presentation. We investigated whether, after adjusting for literacy, race was a significant independent predictor of greater PSA levels among men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer.