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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Diane Taylor

Change prostate cancer treatment for black men to avoid ‘epidemic’, NHS urged

Close-up of a doctor's hand measuring a patient's blood pressure
GPs are being advised to start conversations with black men earlier and discuss with them taking PSA blood tests to indicate cancer. Photograph: Andriy Popov/Alamy

The NHS must change how black men are treated for prostate cancer to prevent “an epidemic of unnecessary deaths” in which twice as many die as white men, campaigners have warned.

Academics are seeking to raise awareness that one in four black men are getting this cancer, twice the rate of white men, which is one in eight, according to Prostate Cancer UK’s analysis of patient datasets for England. One in 12 black men are at risk of dying of this condition compared with one in 24 white men.

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