/PRNewswire/ The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) today announced the Class of 2021 Young Investigator Award recipients totaling nearly $6.5 million in.
Genes Help Explain Role of Race in Prostate Cancer Risk
Cara Murez, HealthDay News, January 7, 2021
If you’re a Black man, your risk of getting prostate cancer is 75% higher than it is for a white man, and it’s more than twice as deadly.
Now, research is helping to bring genetic risks for people of various racial and ethnic groups into focus. In doing so, dozens more risk factors that could better help pinpoint the odds of developing prostate cancer have been uncovered. And that could potentially lead to better screening protocols and earlier detection for men of all races, experts said.
Genetic basis discovered for the higher risk of prostate cancer in black men
Appeared in BioNews 1078
Black men present genetic variations that make them more vulnerable than white men to developing prostate cancer, research has revealed.
Researchers from the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London and the University of Southern California (USC) led the largest and the most diverse genetic analysis ever conducted for a prostate cancer study, comprised of more than 200,000 men from countries including the US, UK, Japan, Sweden and Ghana. Prostate cancer incidence differs across racial and ethnic groups and it is higher in men of African ancestry and lower in Asian men compared with men of European ancestry explained co-leader Professor Rosalind Eeles, professor of oncogenetics at the ICR. In our new study, we ve shown that genetic factors underlie racial and ethnic differences in the incidence of prostate cancer – and by testing for a range of genetic changes, we can