In Europe, a new case of prostate cancer is diagnosed every 3 minutes. And every 15 minutes a man dies of the disease. At this moment, a male baby has a more or less 15% probability of getting this type of cancer and a 3% probability of dying from it.
In Portugal, 5,000–6,000 new cases are diagnosed every year and approximately 1,800 men die from prostate cancer every year. The probability of getting prostate cancer increases with age. At 80, over 80% of men have malignant prostate cancer.