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Article: 'Report to the Nation on Prostate Cancer' Frames the Debates on Treatment, Identifies Areas of Consensus; With Baby Boomers Aging, Prostate Cancer Has Become Most Common Non-Skin Cancer in the United States.
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- September 22, 2004
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NEW YORK, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) today has issued a Report to the Nation on Prostate Cancer that addresses the urgent need to improve the management of prostate cancer and accelerate the development of better treatments and a cure. This year, 230,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in the United States, and 30,000 are expected to die from the disease. Today, about two million men are battling prostate cancer, and over the next decade, about three million more will be compelled to join the war.
Report Executive Editor, Peter Carroll, M.D., Chair of the Department of Urology at the University of California, San ...