Prostate Cancer Update Rufus Green Jr., M.D., FACS, welcomes you to his offices on the campuses of RHD Memorial Medical Center, St. Paul Medical Center, and Medical Center of Las Colinas. It has been over a year since we addressed prostate cancer in our newsletter. At that time we reported that prostate cancer was the second most common site of cancer in men, that it was estimated that approximately 130,000 men would develop prostate cancer in 1993, and that an estimated 34,000 men would die from prostate cancer. We are very sorry to report to you that those figures held true. In fact, it is now estimated that by the end of the century, approximately one quarter of a million men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and that 38,000 men will die of prostate cancer in 1994.
Prostate cancer is presently the number one site of cancer in men over the age of sixty-five.
Prostate cancer is rapidly becoming an epidemic for men in this country. Its detection and treatment is one of the great controversies in urology today. In this newsletter we will attempt to simplify this dilemma and present current factual information and assumptions. A structure the size of a walnut, the prostate, has now captured the attention of the world. We do not know what causes prostate cancer.