| | In 2000, an estimated 180,400 American men will learn they have prostate cancer. This disease is the most common cancer in males after skin cancer and accounts for a third of all cancer diagnoses in men. About one of every six men develops prostate cancer during his lifetime. An estimated 31,900 men die of prostate cancer each year, making it the second leading cause of cancer death in men, exceeded only by deaths due to lung cancer.
Overall, prostate cancer accounts for 13 percent of all cancer-related deaths in men. Advances in early diagnosis and treatment have greatly changed the outlook for men with prostate cancer. As a result of early detection and widespread application of PSA (prostate specific antigen) the majority of patients have their cancer detected before metastases are detectable and about 90 percent of prostate cancer patients survive at least five years, and almost two-thirds live 10 or more years after diagnosis.
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