Medical Xpress September 13, 2025
Although Black men die of prostate cancer at twice the rate of the rest of U.S. males, this fact often is not known or considered during appointments with their primary-care clinicians to discuss a common screening test.
The new qualitative study published this week in JAMA Network Open showed that Black men often view their primary-care providers as the gatekeepers to receiving a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test, which is the first step to screening for prostate cancer.
“There is an often-used phrase, ‘Prostate cancer is a cancer one dies with; it’s not a disease you die from,'” said the study’s lead author, Jenney Lee, a senior research scientist in urology at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
“And...
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