A new study has shown that, between 1988 and 2005, the disparity in the stage at which prostate cancer was first diagnosed between white and black men in the United States narrowed significantly.
Previously, black men in America had, on average, been diagnosed with more advanced, later stage prostate cancers than white men. The new study, conducted by doctors from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, has found that, while black men are still diagnosed later than white men, the gap has narrowed considerably.
The doctors conducting the study attributed the overall earlier diagnosis of prostate cancer and narrowing of the race gap to more widespread use of the PSA test for screening.
This new study appears in the latest Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
