What is it about?
We worked in partnership with Black men in the North East of England and Scotland to develop a workshop to raise awareness of the increased risk of prostate cancer for Black men, prostate cancer health checks and how to get help.
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Why is it important?
One in four Black men will get prostate cancer, and Black African and Caribbean men are twice as likely as White men to get and die from prostate cancer. We don't know exactly why this is so, but Black men need to know their higher risk and seek help early. Black men have trouble getting help early due to not knowing about the risk of prostate cancer, feeling uncomfortable talking about it, having bad experiences with healthcare, and even racism.
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Black men have double the chance of getting prostate cancer and dying from it compared to White men. Together with Black men, we created a workshop to encourage early checks for prostate cancer. Trained Black community members, including a Black doctor, then ran the workshop. So the workshop was for Black men, by Black men. We need to work in partnership with the communities whose health we aim to improve.
Floor Christie-de Jong
University of Sunderland
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This page is a summary of: The PROCAN-B study protocol: Early diagnosis of PROstate CANcer for Black men—a community-centred participatory approach in Scotland and the North-East of England, PLOS One, December 2024, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0315288.
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