Prostate cancer: Black men are probable to die than white men

“We are looking forward to the event and are delighted to be raising awareness and much needed money to help beat prostate cancer”.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in UK men, with 41,700 cases diagnosed each year.

The researchers noted that race is not the only risk factor for the disease.

Researchers from Prostate Cancer UK and Public Health England examined data on English participants and estimated their lifetime risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer as well as their lifetime risk of dying from the disease.

In a related study published in the journal BMC Medicine, researchers say they have identified five types of prostate cancer, and that each has its own genetic signature. White men had a risk of 13.3%, or one in eight, and Asian men 7.9%, or one in thirteen, no matter their origins, such as Pakistani, Indian or other groups. “The study also provides important absolute risk figures to help black men better understand their risk of developing prostate cancer”.

Dr Iain Frame, of Prostate Cancer UK, said: “For men to truly benefit from these findings it is now vital that the research community comes together to confirm the most efficient methods for testing for different types of prostate cancer that can be bought to the clinic”. Of these men, 102,252 were diagnosed with prostate cancer and 26,521 died from prostate cancer. White men had a risk of 4.2%, or one in twenty four, while Asian men a mere 2.3% in comparison, or one in forty four. While the chances can improve from one man to another belonging to the same ethnic group, depending on family history, age or body weight, there is a clear difference between rate of diagnosis and death for black, white and Asian men. Nonetheless, proportionally more Black men are dying from prostate cancer in England. They studied a total of 25,635,649 men.