Racial Difference in Androgen Receptor May Explain Aggressive Prostate Cancer in African-American Men PSA Rising Sept 4 2003

Gene Researchers Woo Black Men at Risk for Prostate Cancer PSA Rising, New York, July 27, 2003 -- Black men face a much higher risk of prostate cancer than whites, and a higher risk of dying from the disease. Today, researchers who believe they are zeroing in on answers say that too few African-American men have ever been involved enough to find out if promising genetic findings apply to African-American as well as Caucasian men."

Father's Fight Leads Son to Organize - Feet for the Fight Against Prostate Cancer May 4, 2001

African-American Prostate Cancer Crisis

Minorities Get Poor Care for Prostate Cancer and Pain; In Texas, Spanish-Speaking Minorities Receive Inferior Pain Care

African Americans Suffer More Aggressive PCa, Need Screening, Study Says

Seattle Prostate Cancer Gene Study Seeks African-American Participants


bcl-2 Gene Linked to Prostate Cancer in African Americans


Prostate Gene CAPB Mapped at U of Washington


No Pain Care for Many Elderly Cancer Patients, African-Americans Go Short of Pain-Killing Drugs

HARD FACTS ON CANCER: POVERTY & RACE KILL

Cancer is not an inescapable fact of life. Things we do, and social policies, make a huge difference. Michael Thun, MD, vice president of epidemiology and surveillance research for American Cancer Society.

African-American men are 65 percent more likely to get prostate cancer. They are also 142 percent more likely to die from the disease. "Poverty plays a big role in this gap," Thun says. "Black people more often are poor. People with no health insurance may be unable to get important cancer screening tests that find the disease early, for instance. Or if they are diagnosed, people with low incomes may be unable to complete treatment because they can't afford to take time off work, or because they work more than one job."

Screening Is A Key To Choice & Change

"When detected early and monitored closely if the cancer recurs, prostate cancer may not differ for men of different ethnic backgrounds. The real disparity may be in lack of screening and delayed treatment in African-American men." American Cancer Society 2004

Study Confirms PSA Test Reduces Prostate Cancer Deaths in Blacks and Whites National Cancer Institute Aug 30 2003