Reducing barriers to screening in Black men

A research team is examining the links between neighbourhood factors, PSA testing and PCa mortality to improve access to screening in Black communities. More here And a programme to close the gap for Black men with PCa was announced by Prostate Cancer Research in August ’23. See more here  In partnership with Movember, Prostate Cancer UK is funding a study to help find out why Black men are at higher risk of PCa than other ethnic groups. And Prostate Cancer Research announced an initial £875k investment in finding answers to Black men’s higher risks of diagnosis and death. Black men are twice as likely to get PCa and 2.5 times more likely to die from it than White men. Five new projects launched to specifically tackle this inequity. And there’s more informatio for Black men in the wider column on our front page