Cancer Death Rates Among 50 Countries

Prostate

1986-88 Age-adjusted Death Rates per 100,000 Population, Male

Cancer of the prostate is one of the most common cancers among men. The lowest mortality rates were among Asian men, and the highest were in Switzerland. Some of the highest rates were seen in the Nordic countries. The prostate cancer mortality rate in the United States was in the middle, at 15.7 per 100,000. In the United States, even though cancer of the prostate is the most common incidence site in men, the mortality rate is less than one-third that for lung cancer. This is partly due to the fact that the prostate cancer survival rate is so much higher than that for lung cancer.