Health Policy and Management Professor and Chair Thomas LaVeist was the lead author of a study published in the journal Cancer Control. He and his colleagues analyzed data about 749 men (353 black and 396 white) who were 40 to 81 years of age when they entered the North Carolina Central Cancer Registry during the years 2007 and 2008.
The researchers found that compared with white men, black men were more likely to experience a longer wait time between diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. Their findings suggest that the amount of time that lapses between first diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer is longer for black men compared with white men.
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