Screening for Prostate Cancer
Wed,26 October 2011
Cancer is a disease in which abnormal cells in the body grow out of control. When cancer starts in the prostate, it is called prostate cancer. The prostate is a walnut-sized organ located just below the bladder and in front of the rectum in men. It produces fluid that makes up a part of semen.
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men, and second only to lung cancer in the number of cancer deaths. In 2006 (the most recent year for which statistics are available), 203,415 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer, and 28,372 men died from it.* CDC provides men, doctors, and policy