Clinical-pathological comparison of clinical prostate cancer between Japanese Americans in Hawaii and Japanese living in Japan. 2000

T Fukagai, and M Shimada, and H Yoshida, and T Namiki, and R G Carlile
Department of Urology, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Pathology and Surgery, The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, USA. fukagai@attglobal.net

In an attempt to determine the role of environmental factors in the etiology of prostate cancer, we compared the clinical-pathological findings of prostate cancer among Japanese Americans in Hawaii and Japanese living in Japan. Our study showed that prostate cancer in Japanese living in Japan is more advanced than in Japanese Americans. The findings indicate that screening for prostate cancer in Japan is far behind that in the USA. The difference in level of cancer screening also precluded our attempt to analyse environmental factors contributing to prostate cancer progression in the two groups. The variation in method of clinical detection of prostate cancer between the USA and Japan is also likely to contribute to the apparent difference in the incidence of the disease.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007564 Japan A country in eastern Asia, island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean Peninsula. The capital is Tokyo. Bonin Islands
D008297 Male Males
D011471 Prostatic Neoplasms Tumors or cancer of the PROSTATE. Cancer of Prostate,Prostate Cancer,Cancer of the Prostate,Neoplasms, Prostate,Neoplasms, Prostatic,Prostate Neoplasms,Prostatic Cancer,Cancer, Prostate,Cancer, Prostatic,Cancers, Prostate,Cancers, Prostatic,Neoplasm, Prostate,Neoplasm, Prostatic,Prostate Cancers,Prostate Neoplasm,Prostatic Cancers,Prostatic Neoplasm
D006254 Hawaii A group of islands in Polynesia, in the north central Pacific Ocean, comprising eight major and 114 minor islands, largely volcanic and coral. Its capital is Honolulu. It was first reached by Polynesians about 500 A.D. It was discovered and named the Sandwich Islands in 1778 by Captain Cook. The islands were united under the rule of King Kamehameha 1795-1819 and requested annexation to the United States in 1893 when a provisional government was set up. Hawaii was established as a territory in 1900 and admitted as a state in 1959. The name is from the Polynesian Owhyhii, place of the gods, with reference to the two volcanoes Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, regarded as the abode of the gods. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p493 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p2330) Midway Island,Midway Islands
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368 Aged A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available. Elderly
D000369 Aged, 80 and over Persons 80 years of age and older. Oldest Old
D001213 Asian A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam (https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/10/30/97-28653/revisions-to-the-standards-for-the-classification-of-federal-data-on-race-and-ethnicity). In the United States it is used for classification of federal government data on race and ethnicity. Race and ethnicity terms are self-identified social construct and may include terms outdated and offensive in MeSH to assist users who are interested in retrieving comprehensive search results for studies such as in longitudinal studies. Asian Americans,Chinese Americans,Japanese Americans,Korean Americans,Asian Indian Americans,Cambodian Americans,Filipino Americans,Hmong Americans,Vietnamese Americans,American, Cambodian,American, Korean,American, Vietnamese,Americans, Asian,Americans, Cambodian,Americans, Chinese,Americans, Filipino,Americans, Hmong,Americans, Japanese,Americans, Korean,Americans, Vietnamese,Asian American,Asian Indian American,Asians,Cambodian American,Chinese American,Filipino American,Hmong American,Indian American, Asian,Japanese American,Korean American,Vietnamese American
D015994 Incidence The number of new cases of a given disease during a given period in a specified population. It also is used for the rate at which new events occur in a defined population. It is differentiated from PREVALENCE, which refers to all cases in the population at a given time. Attack Rate,Cumulative Incidence,Incidence Proportion,Incidence Rate,Person-time Rate,Secondary Attack Rate,Attack Rate, Secondary,Attack Rates,Cumulative Incidences,Incidence Proportions,Incidence Rates,Incidence, Cumulative,Incidences,Person time Rate,Person-time Rates,Proportion, Incidence,Rate, Attack,Rate, Incidence,Rate, Person-time,Rate, Secondary Attack,Secondary Attack Rates

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