Erratum to “Prostate Cancer in South Africa: Pathology Based National Cancer Registry Data (1986–2006)‎ and Mortality Rates (1997–2009)‎”

Abstract EN

It has been brought to our attention that there was an error in Table 4 in “Prostate Cancer in South Africa: Pathology Based National Cancer Registry Data (1986–2006) and Mortality Rates (1997–2009).” The number of cases reported for prostate cancer death in the coloured and white population groups were accidently switched in the data supplied.

So, of the 2331 reported deaths from CaP in 2009, 970 were black, 530 were from unknown population group, 251 were coloured (not white), 546 were white (not coloured), and 34 were Asian/Indian.

This changes the age standardised mortality rate per 100 000 for white men to 14.5 (not 6.8) and for coloured men to 22.1 (not 51.9).

Also, the average age of death for coloured men was therefore 72 years (SD 10.4) and for white men it was 76 years (SD 10.1).

Coloured SA men still have the highest mortality rate.