Prostate Screening

The prostate is a male genital gland about the size of a walnut which helps produce semen and surrounds the portion of the tube through which urine passes (urethra).

• Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer and leads to more deaths in men than any other type of cancer except lung cancer.
• The risk of prostate cancer is higher in African-American men than    in other racial/ethnic groups.
• African-American men are twice as likely to die of prostate cancer than  men of other racial/ethnic groups  .