Vitamin D deficiency could be the reason African American men experience more aggressive prostate cancer at a younger age compared with European American men, research from Cedars-Sinai Cancer suggests. The multi-institutional study, published in Cancer Research Communications, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, could pave the way for revised nutritional guidelines.
Credit: Jonah Elkowitz/ShutterstockThat President Biden was diagnosed with prostate cancer is certainly unfortunate news, but it should come as no surprise. One in eight men in the U.S. will be told they have prostate cancer at some point in their lifetime: more than 300,000 new diagnoses occur annually, and the absolute numbers are rising.
