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September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, so here's something you should be aware of.

Earlier this year, the Prostate Cancer Foundation issued new screening guidelines, encouraging

Black men to start getting baseline blood tests for prostate cancer as early as age 40.

That's because, according to the American Cancer Society, black men are 70% more

likely than white men to develop prostate cancer in their lifetime and twice as likely to die

from the disease. For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman. Today I'm joined

by Dr. Alfred Winkler, Chief of Urology at New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital.

He's here to tell us more about how folks can protect themselves from prostate cancer.

Dr. Winkler, thanks so much for joining us.

It's great to have you on the show.

I welcome the opportunity.

Thank you.

So why don't we start by just talking a little bit about the prostate,

you know, where is it and what does it do? Sure, happy to. So a very, very important starting

point because people really don't know where the prostate is or what it does. So the prostate

sits deep in the male pelvis, only men have prostates, and it sits below the bladder, the ureth or the urine

tube that drains the bladder, runs through the middle of the prostate. The prostate's main job

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