PACE

Did you know :

• Prostate cancer is diagnosed every 2  3/4 minutes, approximately 220,000  new cases each year. It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in America among men. 

• Almost 29,000 American men lose their lives to prostate cancer each year, one death every twenty minutes. 

• Prostate cancer incidence rates increased 192% between 1973 and 1992. 

• One in six American men is at lifetime  risk of prostate cancer. If a close relative has prostate cancer, a man's risk of the disease more than doubles. With two relatives, his risk increases fivefold. With three close relatives, his risk is about 97%. 

• In the next 24 hours, prostate cancer  will claim the lives of over 80 American men. 

• Prostate cancer represents about 30% of all new cancer cases in American men.

• This year, more cases of prostate cancer in men under the age of 65 are expected than the combined number of men of all ages who are victims of leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, and brain tumors. 

Here are some additional statistics about the Drive Against Cancer Program:

• In 2002, DAPC screened over 6,500 men over 72 days in 45 venues in 19 states 

• Most men screened in a single day: 433 in Chicago, IL

• The average man screened was 57 years old

For more information, or to obtain additional packets, please contact Katie Zakas, Director of Service, by phone (574) 631-6723 or by email kzakas@nd.edu.