The facts about prostate cancer

The Canadian Press


Published Sunday, May. 08, 2011 8:37PM EDT


Last updated Sunday, May. 08, 2011 8:38PM ED


Former Olympic champion swimmer Alex Baumann has
been diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer.
Some facts about the disease from the Canadian
Cancer Society and Prostate Cancer Canada:

- 24,600 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer
in 2010 and 4,300 of those cases were fatal.

- Some symptoms of prostate cancer are the need
to urinate often, difficulty urinating, painful
urination, blood in urine or semen and painful ejaculation.

-­ One in six men will develop prostate cancer.

-­ The two tests available to detect prostate
cancer early are a digital rectal exam and a
prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test.

-­ If caught early, prostate cancer is more than 90 per cent curable