Local urologist, Dr. Hanan Goldberg, says prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer, and reminds men to get regular check-ups.
September marks prostate cancer awareness month.
And withver 1- thousand mendiagnoseh expertsay prostate ncer is thsecond st common cancein the t also remains the second leading cause of cancer... with more than 33- thousand patient deaths occuring every year.
New this morning.... we hear from a urologist at mvhs on the importance of getting screened.
1:14 -- "most cancers, i would say 60% of them, are diagnosed in men over age 65.
But we sometimes see them occur in younger men.
The mean age of diagnosis is about 66.
So it's a very common cancer affecting a lot of men.
So early diagnosis is actually key to this kind of cancer."
-- 1:35 dr. goldberg says from 1993 to 2017... the death rate from prostate cancer decreased by more than half because of early detection and diagnosis.
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