--- title: Black Men are Twice as Likely to Die of Prostate Cancer as White Men description: A study found a white man's risk of getting prostate cancer was approximately 1 in 8, whereas for black men the risk was 1 in 4. canonical: https://time.com/3978319/prostate-cancer-black-men/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-30T12:54:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:58:21.571Z article:section: Health og:title: Black Men are Twice as Likely to Die of Prostate Cancer as White Men og:description: A study found a white man's risk of getting prostate cancer was approximately 1 in 8, whereas for black men the risk was 1 in 4. og:url: https://time.com/3978319/prostate-cancer-black-men/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Black Men are Twice as Likely to Die of Prostate Cancer as White Men twitter:description: A study found a white man's risk of getting prostate cancer was approximately 1 in 8, whereas for black men the risk was 1 in 4. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Black Men are Twice as Likely to Die of Prostate Cancer as White Men > Sponsored content. 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TIME's Alice Park explains how new cancer screening recommendations effect you_  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jul 30, 2015 12:54 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jul 30, 2015 12:54 PM UTC Black men are twice as likely to be diagnosed with and die from prostate cancer as white men, according to a new study. [The study](http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/13/171), published online in BMC Medicine, looked at incidence and mortality data from Public Health England and found that in the U.K., a white man’s lifetime risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer was approximately 1 in 8, whereas for black men the risk was 1 in 4\. Asian men fared the best, with a 1 in 13 risk for diagnosis. Each group was equally likely to die from the disease once they were diagnosed, so proportionally more black men die from prostate cancer than white or Asian men. The research does not determine why there are these differences in ethnic groups, but Alison Cooper of Prostate Cancer UK, the lead author of the study, [told the _Guardian_](http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/30/prostate-cancer-twice-likely-kill-black-men-white-men-study), “The study also provides important absolute-risk figures to help black men better understand their risk of developing prostate cancer. 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