{"id":13,"date":"2013-08-28T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T23:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dralexurology.com\/prostate-cancer\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2013-08-29T00:03:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:03:22","slug":"race-ethnicity-prostate-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dralexurology.com\/prostate-cancer\/race-ethnicity-prostate-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Race, Ethnicity and Prostate Cancer Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Racial\/Ethnic Risk Stratification of Prostate cancer risk:\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Race has been identified as an important risk factor but it seems to be a substitute for as of yet unidentified genetic markers.\u00a0 The risk of prostate cancer is highest in African Americans and it tends to be more aggressive compared to Caucasians.\u00a0 Asian and\u00a0 Asian Indians\/Pakistanis are at lower risk for prostate cancer than Caucasians.16\u00a0It is notable that immigration from a low-risk geographic area to a high risk geographic area results in assumption of risk of the higher risk geographic area which suggests that dietary\/environmental factors are at play.10,32-34<\/p>\n<p><b>In summary risk of prostate cancer:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>African Americans &gt; Caucasians &gt; Hispanic &gt; South Asians (Indians\/Pakistani) &gt; Asians.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Alex Shteynshlyuger works in collaboration with you to optimize and individualize your prostate cancer care. \u00a0He routinely sees patients at increased risk for prostate cancer. \u00a0He has extensive experience taking care of men with family history of prostate cancer. \u00a0Make an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dralexurology.com\/appointments\/\">appointment with Dr. Shteynshlyuger<\/a>, a fellowship-trained urologic oncologist specializing in treatment of early as well as advanced and metastatic prostate cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial\/Ethnic Risk Stratification of Prostate cancer risk:\u00a0 Race has been identified as an important risk factor but it seems to be a substitute for as of yet unidentified genetic markers.\u00a0 The risk of prostate cancer is highest in African Americans and it tends to be more aggressive compared to Caucasians.\u00a0 Asian and\u00a0 Asian Indians\/Pakistanis are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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