African American men diagnosed with very low-risk prostate cancers are much more likely than white men to actually have aggressive disease that goes undetected with current diagnostic methods, a John Hopkins study recently suggested. According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer occurs more often in African American men than in men of other races. African American men are also more likely to be diagnosed at an advanced stage and are more than twice as likely to die of the disease as white men. And despite the fact that African American men are more likely to be diagnosed with more advanced prostate cancer than white men, they are not receiving optimal treatment, such as proton therapy. One way to lessen these disparities is through education, said Keith Gregory,... Full article