Black men in England more likely to be diagnosed with late-stage prostate cancer, analysis shows

A mobile NHS prostate cancer test van, helping to screen black men, who are 2.5 times more likely to die from the disease compared with white men. Photograph: Terry Waller/Alamy

Black men in England are more likely to be diagnosed with late-stage prostate cancer than their white counterparts, while being less likely to receive life-saving treatment, analysis by the National Prostate Cancer Audit has found.

The analysis found that black men were diagnosed with stage three or four prostate cancer at a rate of 440 per 100,000 black men in England, which is 1.5 times higher compared with their white counterparts, who had a diagnosis rate of 295 per 100,000.