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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Tobi Thomas Health and inequalities correspondent

Majority of black people think racism played role in failure to test for prostate cancer

A mobile prostate cancer test van from NHS invites men to have a psa test to check their risk for prostate cancer in central Manchester, UK, May 2023.
A mobile prostate cancer test van from NHS invites men to have a psa test to check their risk for prostate cancer in central Manchester, UK, May 2023. Photograph: Terry Waller/Alamy

Nearly two-thirds (62%) of black people in the UK believe racial discrimination has prevented them or a male loved one from accessing a prostate cancer test, a survey has found, despite black men having twice the risk of developing the disease than the overall adult male population.

A PSA test measures the level of the protein prostate-specific antigen in the blood, and may be able to detect prostate cancer in its early stages.

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