Prostate cancer risk is highest for African American men
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News that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s son, Dexter King, had died of prostate cancer at age 62 shook Atlanta Monday. African American men are more likely to get prostate cancer than other races and ethnicities and are more than twice as likely to die from it than other men.

From the Atlanta Journal Constitution News:

Left to right- Rev. A.A. Motley, Dexter King, Rev. Floyd H. Flake and Isaac Newton Farris Jr. join in singing, “We Shall Overcome” during a 2006 service marking the national holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta. Dexter King has died of prostate cancer at the age of 62, it was announced Monday. (JOHN SPINK/AJC staff)