Where We Live: Fighting Prostate Cancer
The fight against Prostate Cancer, through increased treatment and education
Black men are twice as likely to get prostate cancer as white men and doctors don’t quite understand why. Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in American men. There are more than 28 thousands deaths each year from the disease – African Americans dying at a rate two and a half times higher than Caucasians – in part due to their limited access to health care.
But in Hartford, this is changing. Survivor and resident Curtis D. Robinson, has helped fund a collaboration that hopes to better understand and solve these racial health disparities.
Coming up, a conversation on the new partnership between Saint Francis Hospital and the Tuskegee University Cancer Research Program. We’ll be joined by doctors to talk about The New Men’s Health Institute, which provides free services to the uninsured and the underinsured. The program focuses on patient education, early diagnosis and appropriate treatment for men at risk of prostate cancer. And, we’ll talk about the historical ties that make this effort a landmark for Tuskeegee University.
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Every one hundred minutes an African American man dies from Prostate Cancer.
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