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What percent of men get prostate cancer? What is the percent breakdown of treatment - surgery vs radiation

What percent of men get prostate cancer? What is the percent breakdown of treatment - surgery vs radiation?

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In 2004 there were 189,075 cases of prostate cancer in the United States. Men are considered at-risk for the disease once they reach 40 years of age. In 2004 there were 57,170,503 men over 40 in the U.S. according to the American Community Survey. That calculates to 0.003% of the at-risk population. I was not able to find any statistics on surgery VS. radiation. I have 4 four close family members who were diagnosed with prostate cancer and all received surgery first. One received radiation after surgery because the entire malignancy was not taken care of.





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