Prostate cancer in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean: it is time to consider screening.

Prostate cancer is a serious health problem in the Caribbean with high incidence and mortality rates affecting a predominantly Black population. Research is required to help elucidate the importance of locally relevant modifiable risk factors so that preventive strategies may be instituted both at the population and individual levels. Also, effective secondary preventive strategies such as mass screening and other interventions should be urgently considered to bring this common disease under control and reduce not only the mortality but the morbidity and accompanying caregiver burden.