A research team from the University of Oxford wanted to look at the relationship between height, obesity, and prostate cancer grade has found that men who are tall and men who are obese are at a higher risk of high grade prostate cancer and cancer death.
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Read MoreAccording to the Prostate Cancer Foundation, African American men are 64% more likely to develop prostate cancer compared with Caucasian men and are nearly 2.4 times more likely to die from the disease.
Read MoreAccording to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men in the United States, behind lung cancer. It is also the most common type of cancer in men other than skin cancer. And according to the Prostate Cancer Foundation, African-American men are nearly 1.6 times more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than Caucasian men and 2.4 times more likely to die from the disease.
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Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men in the United States. African-Americans have the highest risk of developing prostate cancer among any other racial group. Prostate cancer in African-American men also tends to be more aggressive.
Key statistics about African-American men and prostate cancer:
Read MoreRace/ethnicity: African-American men and Caribbean men are more likely to develop prostate cancer compared to men of other races. African-American men are more than twice as likely to die of prostate cancer compared to Caucasian men. Prostate cancer occurs less often in Asian-American and Hispanic/Latino men than in non-Hispanic whites. Family history of prostate cancer: Having a father or brother with prostate cancer more than doubles a man’s risk of developing this disease.
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Read MoreLast week, researchers reported that infertile men are at an increased risk for developing aggressive prostate cancer, and I have been getting a lot of questions from my patients, so I decided to answer some of them here for all of you.
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