Dominik’s father is going for his yearly medical exam. Dominik saw an article in the morning paper concerning prostate cancer in the United States that included the following information:
"Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men (after skin cancer) and is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in men in the United States. Risk factors for the disease include a family history of the disease, increasing age, and being of African ancestry.”
The article also included a graph, shown on page 2.
Dominik is African American. How does his ethnicity affect his family’s risk for prostate cancer?
According to the graph, what happened to prostate cancer mortality rates from 1994 to 2012?
