African Americans’ Perceptions of Prostate-Specific Antigen Prostate Cancer Screening

In 2012, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) released a hotly-debated recommendation against prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing for all men. The present research examines African Americans’ beliefs about their susceptibility to prostate cancer (PCa) and the effectiveness of PSA testing in the context of the controversy surrounding this recommendation