Research at Kettering Hospital into low prostate cancer screening for black men

Kettering General Hospital is supporting research into the reasons why black men do not always come forward for prostate cancer testing.

A research team at the hospital is trying to contact black men and their families to find more about the stigma associated with prostate cancer, why this is the case, and what would change people’s minds.

The hospital is supporting phase 1 of a national study which aims to carry out interviews and surveys with volunteers to include black men with prostate cancer, their partners and immediate families, and black men over 40 without prostate cancer.

For the purposes of the study black ethnicity is described as self-identified by men, within the UK census categories Black African, Black Caribbean, Black British, Black Welsh or Black other.

The national study is led by Dr Olufikayo Bamidele at the Hull York Medical School, is supported at a local level by KGH Consultant Urologist Mr Ayman Girgis.

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