Prostate Cancer Risks: Age, Race, Family, And Now Weight Gain

Patrick Walsh, M.D., author of Guide To Surviving Prostate Cancer and Distinguished Service Professor of Urology--The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, is the world's foremost authority on prostate cancer. His book provides some striking news for men: --More than 200,000 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year. --27,000 will die in the U.S. from it this year. --Prostate cancer is the most common major cancer in men. --Because prostate cancer is silent, generally without symptoms, early detection is the key. --Men should begin being screened for prostate cancer at age 40. --When prostate cancer is small, it is curable. --More than 95% of men diagnosed with prostate cancer are alive ten years later...