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Article: Prostate Cancer Foundation Statement Regarding Colin Powell's Prostate Cancer Surgery.
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- PR Newswire
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- December 15, 2003
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Colin Powell underwent surgery for prostate cancer. He joins John Kerry, Norman Schwarzkopf, Rudy Guiliani, other political leaders, and over 220,000 men in the United States who will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year, making it the most common non-skin cancer in America. One in six men will get prostate cancer during their lifetimes. A man is one-third more likely to get prostate cancer than a woman is to get breast cancer. We estimate that over two million American men are now battling prostate cancer and that over the next decade, about three million more men will be compelled to join the battle.