Junior Hemans was having a routine health check in 2014 when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, at the age of 51. Prostate cancer has overtaken breast cancer as the most commonly diagnosed cancer in England but there is no national screening programme despite there being more than 55,000 new cases annually. “For example, for black men the [increased risk of prostate cancer] is probably a mixture of environmental and genetic factors. She said: “I don’t think there’s a huge amount of evidence for black men because, unfortunately, I don’t think we’ve got enough research that includes black men in it. One in 10 participants of the 20-year trial will be black men, a sample size much higher than previous clinical studies.