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Manisha Desai

Publication Details

  • Prostate-specific antigen, sex steroid hormones, and the insulin-like growth factor axis in U.S.-born, Jamaican, and Haitian black men: a pilot study.

    Chen AC, MacChia RJ, Conway F, Magai C, Desai M, Neugut AI. Urology. 2004; 64 (3): 522-7

    African-Caribbean men have a risk of prostate cancer comparable to that of African-American men. To begin exploring potential risk factors for prostate cancer in these high-risk black subgroups, we conducted a pilot study in Brooklyn, New York, a community with large numbers of African-Americans and immigrants from Jamaica and Haiti.

    PubMedID: 15351583

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