Adult urologyProstate cancer screening parameters in a high-risk African-Caribbean population☆
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Material and methods
The Tobago Prostate Survey is an ongoing prostate cancer screening study on the Caribbean Island of Tobago, population 46,435, according to the 1990 census.12 The target recruitment population for this study was all men 40 to 79 years old (5121 men). In 1990, the population of Tobago was 92% African descent, 4.5% mixed, 2% East Indian, 0.4% white, and 1% other.12
This report on the first prostate cancer screening program in Tobago included men recruited between September 1997 and December 2002.
Results
This report describes the first 2582 men, aged 40 to 79 years (mean ± SD 55.9 ± 10.6), who underwent screening with both serum PSA determination and DRE. Of these 2582 men, 92.0% reported three or four grandparents of African descent and 5.4% reported mixed ancestry with one or two grandparents of African descent. The distribution of serum PSA levels by age group in those with and without prostate cancer is presented in Table I.
The screening results for each test separately and combined, by
Comment
This study screened more than one half of the men aged 40 to 79 years residing on the Island of Tobago. The age-specific rates of abnormal screening results and the PPV of an abnormal screening result for prostate cancer were much greater in this high-risk population compared with an early screening study in a U.S. population by Richie et al.15 (predominantly white: 92% white, 3% African American, and 5% other). This reflects, in part, the threefold greater screening-detected prevalence rate of
Conclusions
The screening parameters in this African-Caribbean population were similar to the sparse data available from other populations of African descent. Screening was highly efficacious, with a PPV of 56% for an elevated PSA level and 40% for an elevated PSA level and/or abnormal DRE findings.
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This study was supported, in part, by funding or in-kind services from the Division of Health and Social Services, Tobago House of Assembly, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, contract DAMD 17-99-1-9015, U.S. Department of Defense, and grant R01 CA84950, U.S. National Cancer Institute.