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Appendix Table C1.1. Descriptive characteristics of the epidemiologic studies considered relevant to KQ1 (continued)
Author Database Start End year Sample size Eligibility criteria
Year year
uid
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Dennis SEER 1973 1996 253,833 Incident prostate cancer cases, aged ≥45 yr. Cases ascertained from
2000 autopsy or death certificate only were excluded.
10679753
Hsing b80 SEER 1973 1992 100,212 NR
2000 [90,419 white; 9,793
10585584 black]
24
Merrill SEER 1973 1995 NR NR
2000
10792091
25
Clegg SEER 1973 1998 NR Results were reported only for White and Black patients. The study reported
2002 age-adjusted and reporting delay-adjusted incidence rates for prostate
12381706 cancer; reporting delay-adjusted rates were calculated only for 1981-98.
26
Stephenson SEER 1973 1997 261,464 Incident prostate adenocarcinoma cases. Excluded cases not confirmed
2002 histologically and cases diagnosed by autopsy or death certificate only.
12109343
27
Escobedo SEER 1973 1998 40,548 Patients in the SEER database who reside in Connecticut, Iowa, or New
2004 Mexico; African American men only.
15542264
28
McDavid SEER 1973 1999 NR Excluded men aged <50 yr and non-White individuals.
2004
15192905
29
Hayat SEER 1973 2003 134,434 All cancer cases in the coverage areas (subgroup results presented for
2007 [number available prostate cancer), excluding childhood cancers. Excluded were cancer
17227898 for the last study yr] diagnosed by death certificate only, or at autopsy, and cases with in situ
disease as the first cancer diagnosis.
30
Jani SEER 1974 2003 455,170 Patients with available grade and age information. Excluded stage IV disease,
2008 nonadenocarcinoma or undifferentiated histology, and those with missing
18845997 data on grade or age.
31
Clegg SEER 1975 1997 233,520 Incident invasive prostate cancer belonging to 6 ethnic groups: non-Hispanic
2002 Whites, Hispanic Whites, African Americans, Asian Americans (Chinese,
12230422 Japanese, Filipino), American Indians and Hawaiian natives.
32
Merrill SEER 1975 1997 NR Black or White prostate cancer patients.
2002
11790678

b Incidence rates and patient characteristics in this study were calculated from SEER data and were extracted; mortality rates were obtained from published
sources and were not extracted.

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