Did You Know? Prostate Health Statistics

Since 1990, about 16 million new cancer cases have been diagnosed.

Cancer risk, including prostate cancer risk, increases after the age of 50. Baby boomers turn 50 at the rate of 1 every 7 seconds.

The United States invests just over $4 billion annually to cure cancer.

American men have a 1 in 2 lifetime risk of developing cancer.

One in every six men will get prostate cancer sometime in his life.

The chances of getting prostate cancer are one in three if you have just one close relative (father or brother) with the disease.

Prostate cancer is the second-leading cause of male cancer-related death in the United States. An estimated 27,360 men will die from prostate cancer this year.

Prostate cancer is a common, but typically slow growing cancer when compared to other types of cancer. Its growth is fed by, and generally depends on male hormones.

Rates of prostate cancer in the U.S. are 60 percent higher among African-American men, and the mortality rate is two-and-a-half times that of Caucasian men.

Statistics courtesy of the American Cancer Society and ZERO – The Project to End Prostate Cancer