By Dianne Anderson Health advocates are sending a clear warning to Black men –  do not sit around watching and waiting when it comes to prostate cancer. There’s no time for head-in-the-sand syndrome, or lagging on PSA and other tests. Run, don’t walk, for the follow-up. Erlinda Patterson and co-host James Miller recently started free ...

By Dianne Anderson It takes a good strong woman to drag a man down to the doctor’s office, usually kicking and screaming, at the thought of their annual prostate exam. But a lot of times, health advocate Michael Lexion sees men in his sessions who wonder why the women are allowed in the room at ...

The largest coordinated research effort to study biological and non-biological factors associated with aggressive prostate cancer in African-American men has begun. The $26.5 million study is called RESPOND, or Research on Prostate Cancer in Men of African Ancestry: Defining the Roles of Genetics, Tumor Markers, and Social Stress. It will investigate environmental and genetic factors ...