THE STATS
-1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime – a new case is diagnosed every 2.1 minutes. A man dies from prostate cancer every 18 minutes.
-In 2012, 242,000 new cases of the disease will be diagnosed and 28,000 men will die of prostate cancer.
-Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men after skin cancer.
-A man is 35% more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than a woman is to be diagnosed with breast cancer.
-The incidence rates are nearly double for African American men.
-If detected and treated early, prostate cancer has
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