Environment as a Potential Key Determinant of the Continued Increase of Prostate Cancer Incidence in Martinique

Figure 1

Evolution of prostate cancer incidence rates expressed as ASRs in Martinique □ in comparison with the incidence growth curve obtained from the 11 “department” registries of metropolitan France ● and with the extrapolated overall incidence growth curve for metropolitan France ∆. Values of 𝑅² were 0.9742 for Martinique and 0.9845 for the 11 metropolitan “department” registries. Note that for Martinique and metropolitan France, despite the fact they are seemingly diverging since 1985, after log transformation, the 2 curves are not significantly diverging (see Figure 2).