Curative brachytherapy for prostate cancer in African-Caribbean patients: A retrospective analysis of 370 consecutive cases

Abstract Purpose Prostate cancer is the most frequent malignancy in African-Caribbean men, a population sharing common genetic traits with African-American (AA) but presenting also genomic and epidemiologic specificities. Despite socioeconomic disparities with French mainland, all patients were treated within the French state–financed equal-access health care system. In this study, we report biochemical outcomes of patients treated by brachytherapy in our department from 2005 to 2014 in an African-Caribbean population. Methods and Materials Three hundred seventy consecutive patients receiving125 I brachytherapy as a curative treatment for early-stage (localized) disease between 2005 and 2014 were recorded. Selected patients presented with low-risk disease: initial prostate-specific antigen (PSA)