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How Many Men Out Of Ten Get Prostate Cancer?
Young men don't live as long with an advanced prostate cancer diagnosis as older men, a study suggests. An analysis of 318,774 men found that men who were diagnosed before the age of 44 were three times more likely to die from the disease than older men with advanced prostate cancer. Experts disagree over whether this finding indicates that people should be screened earlier in life, but they say that it's a factor that doctors and patients should take into account.
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