Incidence, racial differences, and prognostic significance of prostate carcinomas diagnosed with obstructive symptoms

Abstract

Survival, stratified by stage and grade, is not affected adversely by obstructive symptoms. Neither racial differences in the incidence of obstructive symptoms nor the frequency with which obstructive symptoms require surgical correction explain why black men with CAP consistently are diagnosed more frequently with Stage D prostate carcinoma and less frequently with Stage A CAP than white men with CAP.