Global: Cancer still hush hush among black communities
24.05.2006
Britain's National charity The Prostate Cancer Charity UK (TPCC) has welcomed the findings of a new study that has located the gene that increases the risk of cancer, but say in order to avoid deaths from the disease black men need to learn more about it. In the USA, African Americans are 1.6 times more likely to develop prostate cancer than white American men and 2.4 times more likely to die from it.