BLACK HEALTH MATTERS – PROSTATE CANCER IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND THE ROLE OF CLINICAL TRIALS

According to Euvon Jones, his journey with prostate cancer is “not a testimony you usually hear.”

For starters, Jones is African American and Black men not only experience a disproportionately high incidence of prostate cancer,[1]  but are more than twice as likely to die from the disease than any other racial or ethnic group in the United States.[2] Furthermore, age plays a significant role in prognosis, and Jones was 59 years old at the time of his diagnosis fifteen years ago.