The American Cancer Society's most recent estimates for prostate cancer in the United States are for 2011:
- About 240,890 new cases of prostate cancer
- About 33,720 deaths from prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer found in American men, other than skin cancer. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men, behind only lung cancer. One man in 6 will get prostate cancer during his lifetime. And one man in 36 will die of this disease. More than 2 million men in the United States who have had prostate cancer at some point are still alive today.
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