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The prostate is a gland in males that is involved in the production of semen. It is located between the bladder and the rectum. The normal prostate gland is
the size of a walnut and surrounds the urethra the tube that carries urine from the bladder.
Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer among men in the United States. Although the number of men with this disease is large, (the number of men
who die of the disease is considerably smaller, since the majority of men diagnosed with prostate cancer do not die of it).
Prostate cancer is the abnormal growth of cells in the prostate, one of the male sex glands. It is about the size of a walnut, and surrounds the neck of the
bladder and the urethra (the tube that carries urine from the bladder through the penis). The prostate makes the fluid that liquefies the semen and carries the sperm.
As men get older, the prostate may get bigger.
According to Cancer in Iowa - 2008 , the leading cancer deaths in men will be lung (30%), prostate (11%)
and colorectal (9%) and the most common types of new cancer cases in men will be prostate (25%), lung (14%) and colorectum (11%).
The American Cancer Society estimates 27,000 men will die of prostate cancer this year. After 10 years, about 97.9 percent of men diagnosed with early stage prostate
cancer are still alive, but only 17.6 percent of those diagnosed with advanced stage prostate cancer survive 10 years. This further suggests that screening and/or
early diagnosis is beneficial.
For information about prostate cancer:
Cancer Information Service
Prostate Cancer in the Elderly: The Iowa Consensus
Patient Education :
Prostate Cancer
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