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Table 1 Prostate cancer incidence and death rates

From: Improving the health of African Americans in the USA: an overdue opportunity for social justice

Racial/ethnic group

Incidence

Death

All

168.0

27.9

African American/Black

255.5

62.3

Asian/Pacific Islander

96.5

11.3

Hispanic/Latino

140.8

21.2

American Indian/Alaska Native

68.2

21.5

White

161.4

25.6

  1. Statistics are for 2000–2004, age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard million population, and represent the number of new cases of invasive cancer and deaths per year per 100,000 men [110]