New Study Shows That Black Men Die More Often of Prostate Cancer Even If They Get Equal Care

A new study that evaluated 20,000 patients with several types of cancer has found that African-American men and women are more likely to die of their cancers even when they receive equal care. Included in this study were men with prostate cancer.

Previously, much of the focus on why African-Americans had higher mortality rates from cancer had been on disparities in the availability or quality of health care. The results of this study suggest that, even when care is equal across racial/ethnic boundaries, African-Americans still tend to have a higher chance of dying from their cancer.

More research will need to be done to determine what exactly accounts for the difference in cancer mortality rates that exists, but this research offers some interesting insights at the very least.

The full study was published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute by scientists from Loyola University.

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