Close to 40,000 American men will die this year from Prostate cancer!

Tell them and their families that it's "not worth screening for prostate cancer".

If not for screening, I would have died by 1998...that's how advanced my cancer was when I was diagnosed in 1993 at age of 55.

There is no question that Prostate Cancer is the second leading Cancer killer of men.


>Tracy, assuming that 100% of us will experience mortality at some point (though it may be different between public and private health systems ;-) ) the particular distribution of mortality rates alone isn't that useful a figure. What really matters is longevity and quality of life. When it comes to prostate cancer, the mortality rate is about 34 per 100000 men which is about .03%. A 500% difference in this rate takes it to .15% which is still trivial compared to accidents in younger men and heart disease for older men. Meanwhile some European populations have a much lower incidence of cardiac disease and need not fret if their prostate mortality goes from .03% to even 1%. It all has to add up to 100% eventually and it doesn't necessarily mean their health systems are better or worse. FWIW some experts say it's not worth screening for prostate cancer at all for these sorts of reasons.
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>HTH!