January/February 2007
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1. One in every six men will get prostate cancer sometime in his life.
2. African-American men are at special risk for the disease. They have the highest rate of the disease in the world. In fact, the incidence rate in African-Americans is 60% higher, than in white males and double the mortality rate.
3. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of male cancer death in the United States An American man dies every 18 minutes from the disease.
4. An estimated 28,900 men will die from prostate cancer this year.
5. More than 220,000 cases are expected this year - more than breast cancer.
6. In the single decade of the 1990s, prostate cancer killed about 350,000 men, slightly more than the entire population of Cincinnati, Ohio.
7. Before the advent of early detection through PSA screening, about threefourths of all prostate cancer cases were found in the late stages, where the disease isn't readily treatable or curable.
8. Since widespread use of screening, about three-fourths of all cases are now found early - and giving men a fighting chance.
9. Every man over 50 - younger, if African-American or with a family history of the disease - should resolve to be screened annually for prostate cancer.
10. Screening for prostate cancer takes less than 10 minutes.

Source: National Prostate Cancer Coalition; Cabamus County, NC; S. Brevard, FL; Metro Halifax News, November 2006, via Inside Out On-line Jan/Feb 2007.