USC announces major study into prostate cancer among black men

USC’s Keck School of Medicine (Courtesy photo)
LOS ANGELES — USC’s Keck School of Medicine is leading a $26.5 million effort to conduct the first large-scale, multi-institutional study on black men with prostate cancer to better understand why they are at higher risk for developing more aggressive forms of the disease and why they are more likely to die from it, the university announced Tuesday.
The RESPOND study, funded by grants from the National Cancer Institute, the Nationa