Current prostate cancer screening and treatment strategies may not support a holistic nationwide program

• Published in: Cancer Vol. 128; no. 15; pp. 2858 - 2864
• Main Authors: Nnate, Daniel A., Ball, Jacquie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01-08-2022
• Subjects: Black ethnic group; Cancer research; Cancer screening; cancer specialists; culturally care; diagnosis; Early Detection of Cancer; Ethnicity; Health care; health care disparities; Health services; Humans; Male; Medical diagnosis; Oncology; patient relationship; Prostate cancer; Prostate-Specific Antigen; Prostatic Neoplasms - diagnosis; Prostatic Neoplasms - epidemiology; Prostatic Neoplasms - therapy; Risk analysis; Risk Factors; screening; treatment protocols; United Kingdom; United States; United States; Black ethnic group; culturally care; prostate cancer; screening; cancer specialists; United Kingdom; diagnosis; health care disparities; patient relationship; treatment protocols
• ISSN: 0008-543X; 1097-0142
• DOI: 10.1002/cncr.34337

Lay summary
The diversity of the United Kingdom population and its health care personnel makes it unique for research into evidence‐based prostate cancer screening and management strategies.
Therefore, ensuring that appropriate systems and services are available to enhance treatment support for men with underlying risk factors should be a priority for health care providers.
More efforts are also needed to ensure the representation of men of Black ethnic origin and underserved populations in future prostate cancer research used to inform clinical guidelines.
Prostate cancer is more prevalent in Black ethnic minority groups with supposedly low health literacy levels and low socioeconomic status. However, existing screening and treatment guidelines do not account for underserved populations and thus provide less of a health economic benefit. Although diversity in the United Kingdom population and healthcare personnel makes it unique for research on evidence‐based prostate cancer management strategies, more efforts are also needed to ensure the representation of men of black ethnic origin in future prostate cancer research used to inform clinical guidelines.