Intake of selected nutritional supplements by African-American men.

Objectives: To measure the self-reported intake of vitamins, selenium, vitamin E, and saw palmetto supplements in African-American men.

Methods: A correlational study was conducted of 198 African-American men, aged 40 to 70 years old, who attended a community-based free prostate cancer educational and screening program. The rates of supplement use were compared among demographic groups.

Stability of self-reported family history of prostate cancer among African American men.

The genome-wide search for the prostate cancer gene holds the promise of the availability of prostate cancer susceptibility testing in the near future. When this occurs, self-reported history of prostate cancer will be critical in determining who is eligible for cancer susceptibility testing. Little attention has been given to the reliability of self-reported family history of prostate cancer, particularly in African American men.

Interest in genetic prostate cancer susceptibility testing among african American men.

Six regions for prostate cancer genes have been identified, and it is anticipated that prostate cancer susceptibility testing will be available in the future. This correlational study identified predictors for interest in prostate cancer susceptibility testing among African American men. Participants were 320 African American men from the African American Hereditary Prostate Cancer Study and the South Carolina Prostate Cancer Education and Screening Study participated.