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Black Men and Prostate Cancer — We Must Do Better

Michael Hunter, MD
BeingWell
Published in
3 min readOct 11, 2021

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BLACK MEN, WE MUST DO BETTER. No, I am not going into a scolding mode about anything except this — prostate cancer. This disease is the second highest cancer-related cause of death in men in the United States.

While we have made significant progress for several cancers, there has recently been a troubling trend of more advanced stage prostate cancer at diagnosis. Only about…

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Michael Hunter, MD
BeingWell

I have degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Penn. I am a radiation oncologist in the Seattle area. You may find me regularly posting at www.newcancerinfo.com