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Black men benefit more from screening

Categories: Winter 2023

Black men benefit more from prostate cancer screening in general and from personalized biomarkers because they are more likely to

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harbor genomically-aggressive cancer, even if it appears they have low-risk disease.

Prostate cancer mortality rates in Black men are approximately 2 to 4 times higher than those in every other racial and ethnic group.

Siegel RL, et al, CA Cancer J Clin 2023, 73:17-48.

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