It is a little know fact, but 80% of men will face prostate issues during their lifetime, the most common of which is BPH.
Actually, I'd like some verification of that 80% figure, because frankly I find it hard to believe. (You did say "issues," so maybe I'm not understanding what you mean by that.) From what I can find so far, the actual incidence rates of prostate cancer (
from the government, who generally love to inflate any "crisis" they can) seem to be quite low compared to your statement. The highest incidence rate seems to be among blacks, but even that is only 234.6 per 100,000 men (0.2346%).
From a little more searching, I
found the following:
How Many Men Get Prostate Cancer?
The American Cancer Society's most recent estimates for prostate cancer in the United States are for 2009:
- 192,280 new cases of prostate cancer
- 27,360 deaths from prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer found in American men, other than skin cancer. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in men. (Lung cancer is the first.) One man in 6 will get prostate cancer during his lifetime. [Emphasis added.] And one man in 35 will die of this disease. More than 2 million men in the United States who have had prostate cancer at some point are still alive today. The death rate for prostate cancer is going down, and the disease is being found earlier, too.
1 in 6 is only 16.67%, not 80%, and even fewer men (2.85%) die from it. I don't mean to belittle prostate cancer, and those of us who are getting older should definitely get checked for it as appropriate, but it's not something I'm going to fret about.
We've all got to die from something at some point.
