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| Title |
Lifetime risk of being diagnosed with, or dying from, prostate cancer by major ethnic group in England 2008–2010
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| Published in |
BMC Medicine, July 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-015-0405-5 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Therese Lloyd, Luke Hounsome, Anita Mehay, Sarah Mee, Julia Verne, Alison Cooper |
| Abstract |
In the UK, a man's lifetime risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer is 1 in 8. We calculated both the lifetime risk of being diagnosed with and dying from prostate cancer by major ethnic group. Public Health England provided prostate cancer incidence and mortality data for England (2008-2010) by major ethnic group. Ethnicity and mortality data were incomplete, requiring various assumptions and adjustments before lifetime risk was calculated using DevCan (percent, range). The lifetime risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer is approximately 1 in 8 (13.3 %, 13.2-15.0 %) for White men, 1 in 4 (29.3 %, 23.5-37.2 %) for Black men, and 1 in 13 (7.9 %, 6.3-10.5 %) for Asian men, whereas that of dying from prostate cancer is approximately 1 in 24 (4.2 %, 4.2-4.7 %) for White men, 1 in 12 (8.7 %, 7.6-10.6 %) for Black men, and 1 in 44 (2.3 %, 1.9-3.0 %) for Asian men. In England, Black men are at twice the risk of being diagnosed with, and dying from, prostate cancer compared to White men. This is an important message to communicate to Black men. White, Black, and Asian men with a prostate cancer diagnosis are all as likely to die from the disease, independent of their ethnicity. Nonetheless, proportionally more Black men are dying from prostate cancer in England. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 35 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 17 | 49% |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| Comoros | 1 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 13 | 37% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 26 | 74% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 14% |
| Scientists | 3 | 9% |
| Unknown | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 178 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 178 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 29 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 27 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 23 | 13% |
| Researcher | 15 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 12 | 7% |
| Other | 26 | 15% |
| Unknown | 46 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 57 | 32% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 17 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 30 | 17% |
| Unknown | 50 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 88. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 March 2024.
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#487,050
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#369
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#5,412
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#9
of 72 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,599,531 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,060 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its peers.
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