41,800 deaths related to prostate cancer are estimated for 1997. However, in the past 30 years, survival rate for all stages has risen from 50 percent to 87 percent. Approximately one out of every five men will develop prostate cancer during their lifetimes. African-American men have a prostate cancer incidence rate 66 percent higher than for Caucasian men, and more than twice the mortality rate. However, when prostate cancer is still localized at diagnosis, the 5-year survival rate is 90 percent.
Prostate cancer is common in North America and northwestern Europe.
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