Research Starters
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- Prostate cancer.
- Risk factors: The risk of getting prostate cancer increases with age. About 60 percent of all diagnosed prostate cancer is found in men age sixty-five or older, according to the American Cancer Society's 2017 statistics. Prostate cancer is rare before the age of forty. Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer among men, after skin cancer. Men with a family history of prostate cancer in an immediate relative, such as a father or brother, are two to three times more likely to develop the disease. The disease is also more common among African American men, with more men in this racial group dying from the disease than in any other ethnic group. It is less common in men who are Hispanic, Asian, Native American, or from the Pacific Islands....
- Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health, 2022. 3p.
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