prostate cancer

Black men are dying from prostate cancer at about 2.1 times the rate of other men for reasons that remain unclear, which is why Mark Kennedy took it upon himself to spend a decade screening about 5,000 men who would otherwise have not been given the chance.

The Prostate Health Education Network (PHEN), a leading prostate cancer patient education and advocacy organization based in Boston, is bringing its Prostate Cancer Disparity Rally home to Boston during the month of November to address the African American prostate cancer crisis.

The prostate gland is not known for its size. It’s not much bigger than a walnut. That does not diminish its role, however. Nor its complications.