Different spatial pattern of municipal prostate cancer mortality in younger men in Spain.
Lara Rodriguez-SanchezPablo Fernández-NavarroGonzalo López-AbenteOlivier NuñezNerea Fernández de Larrea-BazJose Juan Jimenez-MoleónÁlvaro Páez BordaMarina PollánBeatriz Perez-GomezPublished in: PloS one (2019)
The consistent high PC mortality/morbidity risk in the Northwest of Spain indicates an area with a real excess of risk. The different spatial pattern in younger men suggests that some factors associated with geographical risk might have differential effects by age. Finally, the regional divergences in mortality and morbidity hint at clinical variability as a source of inequity within Spain.