Survival Rate for Prostate Cancer

When you're diagnosed with prostate cancer all sorts of concerns may be going through your head. Am going to die from this? How long do I have to live?

The bad news is you have cancer. The good news is, if there ever was a cancer to get, prostate cancer is one of the best in terms of survival rates.

Some interesting information on prostate cancer;

- 1 in 6 men (17%), is diagnosed with prostate cancer, after 60.

- 1 in 35 men (3%), will die from prostate cancer.

- The 5 year prostate cancer survival rate is 100%.

- The 10 year survival rate is 92%.

- The 15 year survival rate is 70%.

- Prostate cancer is the 2nd most common cancer (#1 skin cancer).

- It's the 2nd leading cause of death from cancer (#1 lung cancer).

- Prostate cancer accounts for 10% of all cancer deaths in men.

- 200,000 new cases will be diagnosed in the United States, in 2008.

- 2,000,000 American men are living with prostate cancer, in 2008.

- 30,000 American men will die of prostate cancer, in 2008.

The nice to thing to take away from all this is... prostate cancer is not a death sentence. The prostate cancer survival rates are; high (97%), and at late onset (>60 y/o)... which is very encouraging.