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Science 9 June 1978:
Vol. 200. no. 4346, pp. 1165 - 1166
DOI: 10.1126/science.653361
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Science, Vol 200, Issue 4346, 1165-1166
Copyright © 1978 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Cohort mortality for prostatic cancer among United States nonwhites

VL Ernster, S Selvin, and W Winkelstein Jr

In recent decades, age-adjusted mortality rates from prostatic cancer have risen precipitously among blacks, remaining unchanged among whites. It is now the most common cancer among United States black males. When nonwhite mortality rates were examined by age and birth cohort, it was found that peak rates occurred at every age in the cohort of 1896 to 1900, and declined thereafter. This presages an arrest and reversal of the time trend in summary mortality rates as more recent nonwhite cohorts reach the ages of maximum risk.




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