“…The health care challenges confronting AA men when it comes to QoC as it relates to PCa are many, with worse outcomes noted in retrospective studies 20,21 . Numerous studies have been published potentially explaining such differences in outcomes, including issues related to the patterns of care and QoC, the impact of the hospital racial composition, the impact of race on follow-through, lower use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in AA men, a lack of knowledge among poor AA men, a more pronounced decline in screening among AA men since the 2012 US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations (concerning screening), greater distrust among AA men, poorer QoC delivered by large (mostly White practices), and the delivery of care from surgeons and facilities with lower volumes, associated with lower surgical quality and outcomes 20,22–30 Table 1. summarizes selected articles addressing these metrics for racial disparity.…”