Sentences with phrase «cancer than white men»

New research points to a clue on why black men are twice as likely to die from prostate cancer than white men.

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However, I recently read that African American men have a 150 percent greater incidence of prostate cancer than white American men.

According to the report, cancer incidence is 15 % higher among African - American men than among white, non-Hispanic men; all minority groups have higher rates of stomach cancer than white Americans; and the 5 - year cancer survival rate of Native Americans is only about two - thirds that of whites.

Probably not coincidentally, testicular cancer is also four to five times more common in white men than in black men.

Black men overall are more likely to have prostate cancer and nearly 2.5 times more likely to die from it than white males, according to the Prostate Cancer Foundcancer and nearly 2.5 times more likely to die from it than white males, according to the Prostate Cancer FoundCancer Foundation.

But inequities between sub-populations in San Francisco were dramatic when expressed as rates, particularly for the African - American community where men have a 63 percent higher incidence and are more than twice as likely to die from prostate cancer as white men, the authors reported.