Black men are twice as likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer compared to other ethnicities – but nearly four in five are not aware of their increased risk, a study has found.
A quarter of black men in the UK will receive a prostate cancer diagnosis in their lifetime, figures have shown – while other men have just a one in eight chance of having the disease.
The risk also gets higher with age, with over-45s being deemed “high risk” – but more than half (56 per cent), of the 500 black males polled, were not aware of this.
