Red Lake Nation News - Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)

American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) men are less likely to receive prostate cancer screening than other racial groups, according to new research from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

The study appears online in Cancer Causes and Control, a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Springer Science+Business Media.

According to the study, prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in men the United States and the second most common cancer-related death in AI/AN men.

https://nativenewsonline.net/health/native-american-men-less-likely-to-be-screened-for-prostate-cancer-new-study-shows