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Prostate cancer is the most common internal cancer in American men. (For men, skin cancer is the most common cancer and only lung cancer causes more cancer deaths.) The lifetime probability of developing prostate cancer is about 17%. Each year, nearly 200,000 men in the United States are diagnosed with prostate cancer, and about 27,000 die from the disease.
A survival rate indicates the percentage of patients who live a specific number of years after the cancer is diagnosed. A relative...
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Introduction to Prostate Cancer
Source: Medifocus Guidebook on: Prostate Cancer
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