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General Men’s Health Stats in the US
  • On average, men die six years earlier than women across the world
  • Men are 24 percent less likely than women to have visited a doctor within the past year 
  • More than one-third of adults (34.9%) in the United States are obese
  • 12.4% of men 18 years and over are in fair or poor health
Prostate Cancer Facts
  • Prostate cancer is the 2nd most common cancer in men in the United States
  • 3M American men are living with prostate cancer
  • 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime
  • 73 American men will die from prostate cancer every day
Testicular Cancer Facts
  • Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in young men aged 15 - 34 years
  • About 8,850 new cases of testicular cancer are diagnosed in men each year
  • About 380 men will die of testicular cancer
  • 1 American man will die everyday from testicular cancer
Mental Health Facts
  • 1 in 4 adults in the United States will experience a mental health problem in a given year
  • In America, 4 out of 5 suicides are men
  • Every day 90 American men die by suicide
  • Every minute, somewhere in the world, a man takes his own life

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