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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. —Martin Luther King Jr1(pp82-83) Disparities in health care delivery and outcomes are complex and longstanding. Many such disparities derive from limited access to health care, socioeconomic barriers, and cultural differences—each of which can result in minorities receiving suboptimal care, and ulti-mately in inferior outcomes. Recently published SEER data again underscore the undeniable disparities in cancer outcomes across eth-nic groups.1a Understanding the drivers of these disparities is relevant for all subpopulations, but for black men with prostate cancer, this is especially true, as there are specific action items of timely importance. Black men with prostate cancer have a 2.5-fold greater risk of lethal prostate cancer compared with white men.1a Hispanic men with prostate cancer have demonstrated increased incidence rates and also
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