How common is prostate cancer?
- Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in men in the U.S., and the 4th most common tumor diagnosed worldwide.
- In the United States, 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in his lifetime.
- For Black men, 1 in 6 will develop prostate cancer and are more than twice as likely to die from the disease.
- In 2023, more than 288,000 U.S. men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and more than 34,000 will die from the disease. That’s one new case diagnosed every 2 minutes and another death from prostate cancer every 15 minutes.
- A man is more likely to develop prostate cancer than he is to develop colon, kidney, melanoma, and stomach cancers combined.
- It is estimated that more than 3 million U.S. men are living with prostate cancer.