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Activity Number: 282
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Abstract - #306830
Title: BMI, Race, and Prostate Cancer
Author(s): Negasi Beyene*+
Companies: National Center for Health Statistics
Address: P.O. Box 1696, Hyattsville, MD, 20788,
Keywords: cancer ; prostate ; BMI
Abstract:

Prostate cancer is a major public health problem, which over a lifetime will affect an estimated one in five American. The American Cancer Society estimated that there were about 232,090 new cases of prostate cancer in the United States in the year 2005. About 30,350 men will die of this disease. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men, exceeded only by lung cancer. While one man in six will get prostate cancer during lifetime, only one man in 32 will die of this disease. The death rate for prostate cancer is going down. More people are diagnosed earlier with this disease than used to be. Different studies conclude differently if BMI and race have any relation to having prostate cancer. Using the National Health Interview Survey of 1997-2003, I am trying to find out if there is any relationship between prostate cancer, BMI, and race.

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