Prostate cancer is more common in Black males

Age-adjusted incidence rates for prostate cancer by race from 1973 to 1994 in the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data base. Screening in the 1980s led to a progressive risk in the incidence of disease, with the rate being higher in Black people. The removal of these incident cases led to a decline in new cases of prostate cancer after 1992.