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Article: Prostate Cancer Deaths Continues To Rise Among African American Men
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- The Tennessee Tribune
- Article date:
- May 4, 2005
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Tennessee TRIBUNE, The
05-04-2005
African American Men 2.5 Times More Likely to Die from Prostate Cancer
Disease Now Accounts for 42 Percent of New Cancer Cases among Black Men
WASHINGTON DC -- Prostate cancer continues to increase its death grip on
African American men as about 1,000 black men are expected to die this year
from the disease.
The new numbers from the American Cancer Society's 2005-06 Facts and
Figures for African Americans show that the mortality rate of African
Americans with prostate cancer versus Caucasians has increased from 2:1 to
2.4:1, the highest ratio ever tracked for the disease.
The devastating statistics came right before National Minority Cancer
Awareness Week, April ...