|  (abstracted
from Jan/Feb 2005 issue of CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians by Sergio
Barreto, Your Guide to Prostate Cancer. (ABOUT.COM)
 Every
year, the American Cancer Society releases an estimate of the impact
that cancer will have on the American people during the coming year.
Following is a summary of the just-released facts and figures pertaining
to prostate cancer in the U.S. for 2005:
• Estimated number of new cases to be diagnosed in the United
States this year: 232,090
• States estimated to have the largest numbers of new cases in
2005: California, followed by Florida, New York, Texas and Pennsylvania
• Estimated number of American men to die of prostate cancer in
2005: 30,350
• Five-year survival rate for patients diagnosed with early-stage
prostate cancer: Nearly 100 percent
• Ten-year survival rate for all prostate cancer patients: 92
percent
• Fifteen-year survival rate for all prostate cancer patients:
61 percent
• Five-year survival rate increase for all prostate cancer patients
over the past 20 years: From 67 percent to 99
Other Statistics:
• Chance that a man will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in
his lifetime: 1 in 6
• Chance that a man will die from the disease: 1 in 33
• Increase  in
the prostate cancer incidence rate between 1973 and 1992: 192 percent
State with the highest rate of prostate cancer deaths between 1997 and
2001: District of Columbia, followed by Mississippi, Alabama and South
Carolina (tie), and Louisiana
Full report available free here:
http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/current.shtml#ARTICLES |
