 African American men have a 35 percent higher incidence of prostate cancer. |
The second annual Race Against Prostate Cancer, a 5k walk/five-mile run/one- mile family walk is scheduled Saturday, July 10, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the Indiana War Memorial in Indianapolis.
Indiana Black Expo, Inc. and the Little Red Door are working together to educate and inform men throughout the state about prostate cancer. The disease is the leading cancer diagnosed among all men in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute; African Americans are 35 percent more likely than Caucasian men to develop prostate cancer, and are two to three times more likely to die from its effect. The stage of detection for African Americans is historically later than their white counterparts, thus limiting treatment options.
The Rev. Charles Williams, president and CEO of Indiana
Black Expo and honorary chair of the race, is the author of
That Black Men Might Live: My Fight Against Prostate Cancer.The
book chronicles Williams’ journey in his fight against cancer
and is the inspiration from which the race was developed.
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