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Doctors need to talk through treatment options better for black men with prostate cancer

  • Written by Rajesh Balkrishnan, Professor, Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia
Providing tools to help African-American men with prostate cancer make decisions about care can make a big difference. michaeljung/Shutterstock.com

African-American men have the highest risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer as well as dying from it compared to any other ethnic group in the U.S. This trend has remained unchanged for over four...

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