However, the disease can be very devastating.
Prostate cancer is often clinically indolent, and many times no intervention is required. The reasons for this are unclear but appear to be at least partly related to genetic factors. Mortality from prostate cancer among African Americans is roughly double the rate for whites. Prostate cancer incidence is 80% higher among non-Hispanic Black men compared to non-Hispanic whites. The highest worldwide incidence of prostate cancer/100,000 population is in the following countries: France, Puerto Rico, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Barbados, Ireland, Martinique, and Guadaloupe. The death rate from prostate cancer significantly dropped from the mid-1990s until 2014 at which point the death rate stabilized. The American Cancer Society has estimated that in 2021 there will be 248,530 new cases diagnosed in the U.S., with 34,130 deaths from the disease. In 2018, more than 1.6 million men were diagnosed with prostate cancer globally and over 366,000 died from it.
Worldwide, it is the second most common male malignancy (lung cancer is first). Prostate cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in men.
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