CHLORDECONE EXPOSURE AND PROSTATE CANCER IN THE FRENCH REGION OF MARTINIIQUE

You may be eligible if

• To take part in this research, participants must meet the following criteria:
• Patients/cases :
• All men newly diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in Martinique during a three-year given period in all public and private services caring for patients with Prostate Cancer, identified via multidisciplinary consultation meetings.
• Male adults under 75 years of age
• Resident in Martinique for at least 6 months
• Histologically confirmed (inclusion possible as soon as the result is known by the urologist)
• Affiliated to a social security scheme or equivalent
• Have signed a free and informed consent form
• Biopsy-negative" controls (Group 1 controls):
• All men with a negative prostate biopsy following elevated Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) assay (\> 2.5 ng/ml) within a 3-year period in all public and private services in Martinique identified via urologists or pathologists.
• Male adults under 75 years of age
• Resident in Martinique for at least 6 months
• Frequency matched on age (+/- 5 years) to patients
• Affiliated to a social security scheme or equivalent
• Signed free and informed consent
• PSA-negative" controls (Group 2 controls):
• All men with a PSA ⩽ 2.5 ng/ml within a 3-year period and less than 3 months identified via a survey institute
• Male adults under 75 years of age
• Resident in Martinique for at least 6 months
• Frequency matched on age (+/- 5 years) against patients
• Frequency matched on socio-professional category against men of the same age in Martinique (INSEE data)
• To take part in this research, participants must not meet the following criteria:
• Be subject to a legal protection measure (safeguard of justice, curatorship or guardianship).
• Inability to consent because does not speak French or Creole.