Renewed attention to prostate cancer this week has come with a familiar problem attached. Many prostate cancers grow so slowly that a man will die with the disease rather than from it. Screening detects prostate cancer before symptoms appear in most men who are screened routinely. Black men face substantially higher prostate cancer incidence and mortality than white men in the United States. Black men, men with a father or brother diagnosed with prostate cancer, and men with known BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, generally in their forties.