Sadly, prostate cancer awareness is nowhere near the awareness and funding of breast cancer.
Men’s Health
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.
Despite these figures, the level of awareness, understanding and support for prostate cancer lags significantly behind that of women’s health causes.
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.
http://us.movember.com/mens-health/prostate-cancer
Doc started checking me at about age 50. To heck with what the Obama Panels say, early detection is the key to dealing with it especially in aggressive type. I ran into an old shipmate I also went to high school with a few years back. They had just found it in him and eradicated it.
I'm already on meds for enlargement so I'm gonna keep a close eye on it. Not really worry but realize the potential. Good thing I like tomatoes LOL.