Medicine Under the Nazis. West Nile-like virus, a pathogen previously unreported in the United States. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American men. Each day about 500 men are diagnosed with this disease. And at about 40,000 annual deaths, it is the second deadliest disease in the United States, behind lung cancer.
Prostate cancer is in some ways the male version of breast cancer.
It's not easily preventable, and early detection may be the key to survival. But controversy has arisen over the value of early detection. At least two United States senators have concluded that American children are at risk because parents are not warned about pesticides sprayed at schools. Some scientists disagree and claim that the senators are unnecessarily alarming parents based on an unfounded health scare and are consequently misdirecting priorities for children's health. Some activist groups have hypothesized that exposure to chemicals in the environment may cause cancer in humans.