Research Article
Prostate Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Barbados, West Indies
Table 2
Short-term secular change in prostate cancer incidence in Barbados and in African Americans.
| | Year | Follow-up months
(days) | Cases | Person-yrs exposure | Age-standardized incidence rate (SEER US 2000 standard population) | | Barbados | SEER (African Americans; 17 registries) |
| | 2002 | 6 (183) | 78 (77) | 64,766 | 146.3 (115.3–183.3) | 273.1 (266.3–280.0) | | 2003 | 12 (365) | 159 (155) | 129,177 | 151.2 (128.3–177.2) | 248.3 (241.9–254.8) | | 2004 | 12 (366) | 195 (192) | 129,530 | 184.1 (158.9–212.3) | 245.2 (238.9–251.6) | | 2005 | 12 (365) | 167 (166) | 129,177 | 159.3 (135.9–185.7) | 227.1 (220.9–233.4) | | 2006 | 12 (365) | 135 (135) | 129,177 | 127.3 (106.7–150.9) | 225.8 (220.0–231.7) | | 2007 | 12 (365) | 188 (187) | 129,177 | 178.2 (153.5–205.9) | 227.8 (222.1–233.7) | | 2008 | 12 (366) | 179 (179) | 129,530 | 169.3 (145.3–196.3) | | | 2002–2007 | 66 (2,009) | 922 (912) | 711,004 | 158.8 (148.6–169.5) | 248.2 (246.0–250.5) | | 2002–2008 | 78 (2,375) | 1,101 (1,091) | 840,535 | 160.4 (151.0–170.2) | — |
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SEER rates based on malignant and in situ disease.
*SEER data for 2008 not available ().
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