(UroToday.com) Disparities in health care in the United States are widespread and prevalent – racial disparities affecting African Americans are particularly long-standing and consequential. In the context of prostate cancer, it has been long recognized that the incidence is higher among African American men. However, differences in prostate cancer mortality according to race are somewhat less clearly related to underlying biology: while it has been noted that African American men in the United State have higher mortality from prostate cancer than their Caucasian counterparts, these differences are not noted in equal access health care systems such as the Veterans Affairs model.