The study aims to document whether PSA screening improves survival from prostate cancer. Geographic description of the areas where men are tending to be diagnosed at later stages of prostate cancer in order to direct outreach and education to citizens and health facilities in those areas. A special project to improve the quality of prostate cancer stage data and reporting from non-hospital sources. Although the incidence rate for black men is declining, they are still more likely than white men to get prostate cancer. Black men are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage and are more likely to die of the disease.
Additional research is needed on the causes and the means to prevent prostate cancer.
At this time, early detection and treatment are the best methods to prevent premature mortality due to prostate cancer.