Black Men: Don’t Wait Until 50 to Talk to Your Sons About Prostate Cancer

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By Kweli I. Wright

Some families can tell you everybody who had high blood pressure, who had “sugar,” and which uncle had a heart attack before 50. But ask exactly who had prostate cancer, how old they were when they were diagnosed, or whether anybody had an aggressive form of the disease, and the details can get fuzzy.

Sometimes the younger men in the family don’t hear about it at all.

For Black families, that’s information worth passing down.

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men in the United States other than skin cancer, and Black men face a higher risk. According to the American Cancer Society, men of African ancestry are more likely to develop prostate cancer than men of other racial and ethnic groups and are often diagnosed at younger ages.

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