Prostate Cancer Screening–Health Professional Version (PDQ®)

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Changes to This Summary (03/04/2016)

The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Significance

Updated statistics with estimated new cases and deaths for 2016 (cited American Cancer Society as reference 1). Also added text to state that the estimated lifetime risk of a prostate cancer diagnosis is about 14.0%, and the lifetime risk of dying from this disease is 2.6% (cited Howlader et al. as reference 3).

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