Forty-one thousand men die from it each year. More than 300,000 American men will be diagnosed with it this year. Doctors have grappled with questions about the causes of prostate cancer for years. But now researchers think they are finding at least some answers. Prostate cancer is the second most deadly cancer for men in this country.
Lung cancer is the main one.
Forty-one thousand men die from prostate cancer each year. More than 300,000 American men will be diagnosed with it this year. Doctors have grappled with questions about the causes of prostate cancer for years. But now researchers think they are finding at least some answers. To discuss that finding and the implications, we are joined by Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Center for Human Genome Research, which is mapping out all 80,000 human genes.