Sunday, January 16, 2011

Does every man get prostate cancer sometime in their life

Does every man get prostate cancer sometime in their life?
I heard every man will get it sometime, unless they die before. Is this true?
Cancer - 10 Answers
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1 :
That's what my bio prof told me.
2 :
No - lots of guys get enlarged prostate which might cause problems with going to the bathroom - not sure what the prostate cancer rate is - 5 to 10 percent? I can't seem to locate a definite number.
3 :
No this is not true!
4 :
No
5 :
Some experts do in fact believe, every man will develop prostate cancer eventually, should he live long enough. But, the same can be said for many other disease/conditions. If you live long enough your likely to get congestive heart failure or renal failure, or..etc. etc. Something is bound to kill ya, right?
6 :
The current statistics are 1 in 6 will have some form or prostate cancer in their lifetime. Believe me I know as I am one of the ones and just happened to catch it by accident during a blood test.
7 :
A man has a 1 in 5 risk of developing prostate cancer by the age of 85 (if nothing else kills him first!)
8 :
It depends on what you count at cancer. I know that may sound stupid, but it's really true. "In situ" cancers are cancer cells that are not yet invasive. They are called precancer by some and Stage 0 cancer by others. For some types of cancer (colon cancer, for example) that are counted as cancer in the statistics. For other types of cancer, like cervical and prostate cancer, they are not counted as cancer. It's probably not every man, but most men will get "in situ" prostate cancer at some point. In most men, it probably never becomes invasive or moves so slowly that it never threatens their life.
9 :
Nope. Utter nonsense!
10 :
Well, I suppose if everyone lived forever then chance will sneak up on people. But it's the same for many many other things.

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