Change prostate cancer treatment for black men to avoid ‘epidemic’, NHS urged

Campaigners seek to raise awareness that twice as many black men are getting the disease than white men

The NHS must change how black men are treated for prostate cancer to prevent an epidemic of unnecessary deaths" in which twice as many die as white men, campaigners have warned.

Academics are seeking to raise awareness that one in four black men are getting this cancer, twice the rate of white men, which is one in eight, according to Prostate Cancer UK's analysis of patient datasets for England. One in 12 black men are at risk of dying of this condition compared with one in 24 white men.