{"id":87454,"date":"2026-04-06T21:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87454"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:08:43","slug":"thousands-of-black-men-will-die-from-cancer-without-targeted-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/06\/thousands-of-black-men-will-die-from-cancer-without-targeted-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of black men &#8216;will die from cancer without targeted tests&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA20fLLA.img?w=534&amp;h=534&amp;m=6&amp;x=460&amp;y=204&amp;s=166&amp;d=166\" alt=\"Jeff Thompson felt \u2018haunted\u2019 after his diagnosis (Prostate Cancer UK)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 2,000\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/prostate-cancer-screening-black-men-b2845243.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Black men will die from prostate cancer\u00a0<\/a>in the next 10 years if the UK doesn\u2019t change its screening programme, new figures reveal. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/thousands-of-black-men-will-die-from-cancer-without-targeted-tests\/ar-AA20g2Zx?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69d41036a5db45ad9c3cce5f137c4c49&amp;ei=48\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than 2,000\u00a0Black men will die from prostate cancer\u00a0in the next 10 years if the UK doesn\u2019t change its screening programme, new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Prostate-cancer-black-men.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87455,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87454\/revisions\/87455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}