ZERO – The Project to End Prostate Cancer: Attention All Men: September Is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

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by Denise Clay | Huliq News | 09.08.2009

Each year over 190,000 men in the US are diagnosed with prostate cancer. Many others go undiagnosed. That is one reason why September is Prostate Cancer Awareness month.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the US behind some skin cancers. In the US, one out of every six men has a risk of developing prostate cancer in their lifetime. This year 27,000 US men will die from prostate cancer. That is 27,000 reasons why September is Prostate Cancer Awareness month.

Only lung cancer kills more men in the US than prostate cancer for those that die of a form of cancer. Prostate cancer does not discriminate. Every man is at risk for it.

The older a man gets the more of a chance he will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. Men under the age of 40 have a 1 in 10,000 chance of being diagnosed with prostate cancer. Men that are 60-69 years old have a 1 in 15 chance. In fact 65% of all of the men diagnosed with prostate cancer are over 65.