Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is the 4th most common cancer worldwide, and there were ~1.5 million new diagnoses in 2022.1 It’s estimated that 313,780 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed in 2025.2 Most prostate cancers are adenocarcinomas, which is a type of cancer that develops in gland cells, such as the cells that make up most of the prostate. Other rare types of cancer that can start in the prostate include small cell carcinoma, transitional cell carcinoma, sarcomas, and other neuroendocrine tumors.3
A few prostate cancer risk factors include4:
- Age: Prostate cancer risk rises after the age of 50, and 60% of prostate cancer diagnoses are in men >65.
- Race/Ethnicity: There is a higher incidence of prostate cancer in Black men than in men of other races. Prostate cancer is more common among non-Hispanic White men than Asian American, Hispanic, and Latino men.
- Geography: Prostate cancer is most common in the Caribbean islands, North America, Northwestern Europe, and Australia.
- Family History Although most men with prostate cancer don’t have a family history, the risk more than doubles if a father or brother had prostate cancer.
- Inherited Gene Changes: Men with inherited mutations of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene and/or Lynch syndrome can increase risk of prostate cancer.
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