Prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death in men in Europe and the United States. Incidence increases with age. Half of prostate cancers over 80 years of age have cancerous lesions, but the actual clinical incidence is far below this number. There are obvious regional and ethnic differences in the incidence of prostate cancer. According to statistics, the Chinese are the lowest, the Europeans are the highest, and the African and Between Israel, China and Japan are the regions with low incidence of prostate cancer, but there is no option for men over 50 years old to find the number of latent cancer lesions in autopsy prostate sections similar to those in Europe and the United States. Therefore, some people think that Oriental cancers grow more slowly than Westerners. Fewer cases. In addition, prostate cancer is also related to the environment.

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