April 23, 2015. African American men have the highest rates of prostate cancer incidence and mortality in the United States. For the past twenty years cancer researchers have worried about this and researched various causal factors. Now a large study suggests obesity may play an important role in what specialists in disparities in prostate cancer risk are calling the "African-American race effect.

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