Health and Wellness
BLACK HEALTH MATTERS – PROSTATE CANCER IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND THE ROLE OF CLINICAL RESEARCH
According to Euvon Jones, his journey with prostate cancer is “not the kind of testimony you usually hear.”
To begin with, Jones is African American, and black men not only suffer a disproportionately high rate of prostate cancer(1), but are greater than twice as prone to die from the disease as another racial or ethnic group within the United States. (2 ) Moreover, age plays a big role in prognosis, and fifteen years ago, Jones was 59 years old on the time of diagnosis.
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