A new study in Cancer analyzed prognostic factors and survival from prostate cancer among whites and 6 Asian subgroups: Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian and Vietnamese.Japanese men had significantly better survival than whites when analyzed separately. Chinese, Filipino, Korean and Vietnamese men had equal survival and South Asian men had significantly lower survival rates. All subgroups except South Asian and Vietnamese had significantly better survival than whites and these two groups had equal survival.
Traditional prognostic factors do not explain these differences in survival as every Asian subgroup had a risk factor profile that would have predicted a survival disadvantage when compared to whites.
