Healthy Tips

  

QUICK FACTS

·         The American Cancer Society recommends that most men get a prostate test beginning at age 50. Men at high risk, such as African-American men and men with a strong family history, should begin testing at age 45.

·          Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) affects 433,216 people in the U.S. each year and caused 430 deaths in 1999. It also accounts for 350,000 to 400,000 operations per year in America.

·          There were 218,890 new cases of prostate cancer and 27,050 prostate cancer-related deaths in the United    States in 2006.

·           It is estimated that approximately $8 billion is spent on prostate cancer treatment each year in the U.S.