: About Me

Prostate cancer is the Rodney Dangerfield of malignancies. It gets no respect, or at least less than it deserves. The disease is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men-more than twice as many diagnoses each year as male lung cancer. Its statistics are similar to breast cancer-230,000 prostate cancer diagnoses this year [2004] vs. 216,000 for breast cancer. Annual death rates are also on the same order of magnitude: 30,000 from prostate cancer, 40,000 from breast. 230,000 diagnoses and 30,000 deaths a year is a major toll. Even if the death risk is small, it's unnerving to be diagnosed...