Chief Healthcare Executive September 27, 2024
There are troubling disparities for Black men with prostate cancer. Dr. William Dahut of the American Cancer Society talks about having more, and earlier, conversations about screenings.
Black men are at higher risk of developing prostate cancer, and they are more likely to die of the disease than white men.
Researchers have found that Black men are 68% more likely to develop prostate cancer than white men, according to data published in January in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Black men are twice as likely to develop prostate cancer as Hispanic men, and they are three times more likely to develop the disease than Asian Americans.
Black patients are twice as likely to die of prostate cancer than white...
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