The outsized burden continues among Black men, a group with prostate cancer incidence rates 67% higher than those of White men and mortality rates more than twice as high.
A family medicine specialist who works with cancer survivorship highlights findings of a study that illustrate how effective screening is and how treatment has changed.
Researchers observed substantial disparities in burden by cancer type, age group, countries/territories, and a country's level of Human Development Index.
Over 4 million cancer deaths have been reverted since 1991, but new cancer cases are estimated to reach over 2 million, according to new data from an annual American Cancer Society report.