**MOVEMBER** PROSTATE CANCER In the US, one in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime making it the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men after skin cancer. In 2013, over 238,000 new cases of the disease will be diagnosed and almost 30,000 men will die of prostate cancer in the US alone. A man is 35% more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than a woman is to be diagnosed with breast cancer. One new case of prostate cancer occurs every 2.2 minutes and a man dies from the disease every 17.5 minutes. The incidence rates are double for African American men. If detected and treated early, prostate cancer has a 97 percent success rate.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:24:24 +0000
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